Sheet Music: Performance Parts
Variations and capriccio : for string orchestra / Colin Spiers.
by Colin Spiers (1983)
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- Instrumentation: String orchestra (6.6.4.4.2 minimum).
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A neo-classic work originally conceived for brass quintet, Variations and Capriccio demonstrates the rhythmic influence of Tippett and the textural characteristics of Britten, combining these with Debussyian parallel chordal movement and Hindemithian quartal writing to form a contrasting palette of blended styles.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 5 performance parts (106p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — professional string orchestra
Duration: 19 mins, 30 sec.
First performance by Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Mills — Aug 88.
The work comprises an original theme followed by five contrasting variations linked to a lively capriccio by a cadenza for the section leaders of the first and second violins.
Revised 2019.
Typeset edition.
This edition produced 12 Apr 19.
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