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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreTheme & Variations : for solo cello [eScore] / Andrew Anderson.by Andrew Anderson (2021)
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Variations only work if there is an instantly memorisable (or pre-existing) theme; a distinct rhythm and harmony does the job here. Variation I (Con Moto) restates the theme's harmony as extended semiquaver strings in 6/8 time. Variation II (Larghetto) switches to a major key for a sunnier version of the theme whose rhythm is now reversed, allowing the semiquaver mordents that concluded each bar to be rewritten as "mordents" with an interval of a third: a sound I associate with Japanese music. The harmony is also sometimes reversed across groups of a few bars. For the silvery tones of Variation III (Andante misterioso), the performer is called to play double-stopped artificial harmonics: Shuhei assured me that, even if they weren't a thing, they could be. A tranquil Berceuese (Variation IV) luxuriates in suspended harmonies, before launching into a Finale (Variation V) full of furious runs and broken chords.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (8p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 8 min.
Commissioned by The ANAM Set, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) with funds provided by Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund.
Includes program note.
Typeset edition.
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