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Randall Snyder
2. Schlagzeug (Portals)
UES104337-502-02
Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 8
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Description
Portals is cast in eight well-defined sections that alternate stratified toccata-like passages embedded
in fixed registers with slower music leading to senza misura antiphonies. The static nature of the piece
is offset by an internal evolution in which the music grows both faster and slower with each of the
toccata sections increasing in speed until unmeasured tremelandi are reached, and the free senza
misura music becoming more dominant in the lengthening slow sections. The piece derives its title
from the double and triple octave gateways that begin each slow sections. Virtually all the pitch
materiao is derived from an 8-note mode ( B-C#-F#-G#-Bb-C-Eb-F), with each note serving at some
point as a pitch center. All of the toccata sections are based on the untransposed mode, and each portal
begins a transposed version originating from one of the original pitches. Portals was originally
composed in 1982 for two pianos in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Igor Stravinsky.
This 1997 version for two pianos and two percussionists was created for the Clinton/Narboni duo,
recorded on Elan CD 82404.
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Type: Stimme
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 8