Martin Lohse
Menuetto
Duration: 7'
Solos:
accordion
Menuetto
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Menuetto
for accordion
The score is in exact pitch, and the proposed registers can be changed according to room and instrument etc.
Menuetto (2008-14) is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen.
Menuetto has a longer history: It started as a menuet movement in 8 momenti mobile (2008) for saxophone quartet and was recomposed in 5 momenti mobile (2013) for accordion duo and piano trio, and finally found its current form for solo accordion in 2014.
It is, together with the arrangement of Liszt’s Liebestraum (2006) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the first works using “rhythm across harmony” which later developed into the composition technique mobile, where different musical layers, independent in time and rhythm, is connected by a simple sequence of major thirds.
Martin Lohse 2014