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performed by Ensemble Offspring; Roland Peelman, conductor
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Score
Ptolemy's onion : amplified flute & amplified string quartet / Damien Ricketson.
Library shelf no. 785.4415/RIC 1 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
Ptolemy's Onion is based upon eight simple folk-like melodies. These melodies, however, are never literally heard. Rather, three 'orbiting bodies' manipulate the melodies influencing the purity or impurity of tone production, the harmonic consonance or dissonance and the general homogeneity or heterogeneity of the ensemble. As the patterns and alignments of these imaginary bodies cycle over time, they pull and shape the raw musical material like gravity.
Work Details
Year: 1998
Instrumentation: Bass flute (doubling alto recorder), 2 violins, viola, violoncello (all instruments amplified).
Duration: 20 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
First performance: by Spring Ensemble — 26 Sep 98. Ninth Sydney Spring International Festival of Contemporary Music, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre, Ultimo, Sydney
Performances of this work
26 Sep 98: Ninth Sydney Spring International Festival of Contemporary Music, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre, Ultimo, Sydney. Featuring Spring Ensemble.
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