Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice (e99), for solo erhu (2017)
Edgerton, Michael LU
(2017)
- Abstract
- PREMIERE: Premiered by Hu Liu during the 2017 China-ASEAN Music Week at the Guangxi University of the Arts on May 28th.
NOTE:
Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice, is a meditation on diversity and the roiling of coexistence. In this piece disparate components from east and west do not suggest a transcendent unification. Rather, rhetorical devices such as “Tiaogong” [跳弓] or “Schleifer” become something else – no longer artefacts presuming cultural retention, but rather discourse to a risky modernism
Technically, Imitating… presents incomplete (and embedded) tuplets on multiple strata that are to be interpreted flexibly in relation to a temporal grid laid out above the notation.
Imitating … continues work with... (More) - PREMIERE: Premiered by Hu Liu during the 2017 China-ASEAN Music Week at the Guangxi University of the Arts on May 28th.
NOTE:
Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice, is a meditation on diversity and the roiling of coexistence. In this piece disparate components from east and west do not suggest a transcendent unification. Rather, rhetorical devices such as “Tiaogong” [跳弓] or “Schleifer” become something else – no longer artefacts presuming cultural retention, but rather discourse to a risky modernism
Technically, Imitating… presents incomplete (and embedded) tuplets on multiple strata that are to be interpreted flexibly in relation to a temporal grid laid out above the notation.
Imitating … continues work with ornamentation as presented by Silvestro Ganassi, in his treatise dal Fontego Opera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535). These ornaments are not to be treated in a historical manner, but rather the performer is asked to simulate non-diatonic contours and gestures, often in competition with an already abundant notation. Such prolongation offered through archetypal symbols provides a fleeting logos that is demonstrably risky. (Less)
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- composer
- Edgerton, Michael
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Non-textual form
- publication status
- published
- subject
- publisher
- BABELSCORES®
- project
- composition, 1985 to current
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- f055e643-0dd9-412b-af9b-b080830f1a1a
- alternative location
- https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/2784-imitating-the-vivacity-of-the-human-voice
- date added to LUP
- 2021-11-16 22:41:32
- date last changed
- 2021-11-17 15:12:01
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abstract = {{PREMIERE: Premiered by Hu Liu during the 2017 China-ASEAN Music Week at the Guangxi University of the Arts on May 28th.<br/>NOTE:<br/>Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice, is a meditation on diversity and the roiling of coexistence. In this piece disparate components from east and west do not suggest a transcendent unification. Rather, rhetorical devices such as “Tiaogong” [跳弓] or “Schleifer” become something else – no longer artefacts presuming cultural retention, but rather discourse to a risky modernism<br/><br/>Technically, Imitating… presents incomplete (and embedded) tuplets on multiple strata that are to be interpreted flexibly in relation to a temporal grid laid out above the notation.<br/><br/>Imitating … continues work with ornamentation as presented by Silvestro Ganassi, in his treatise dal Fontego Opera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535). These ornaments are not to be treated in a historical manner, but rather the performer is asked to simulate non-diatonic contours and gestures, often in competition with an already abundant notation. Such prolongation offered through archetypal symbols provides a fleeting logos that is demonstrably risky.}},
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publisher = {{BABELSCORES®}},
title = {{Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice (e99), for solo erhu (2017)}},
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year = {{2017}},
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