Passing I-III

Passing I-III

Three mobile for accordion

The score is in exact pitch, and the proposed registers can be changed according to room and instrument etc.

The three pieces can be performed individually or as a suite.

Passing is dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen and is in three movements (app. 13-13½ min.):

Passing I

Allegro con passione sostenuto (4 min.)

Quickly repeating notes, small motives and fast patterns. Different tempos in both hands and in the same register, all in a simple sequence of 3 major thirds which represents all the harmonics in the piece.

Passing II

Andante con dolore sostenuto (5-5½ min.)

Slow movement with a theme that slowly moves around in different registers

Passing III

Moderato maestoso (4 min.)

Fast movement based on the same simple sequence as in Passing I.

Mobile

A musical technique where different layers of music in individual tempos, metric and musical style are combined in a simple pattern of chords, which slowly modulate through all the keys in a newer ending sequence, creating a music with no or very few dissonances.

I've developed the technique by combining different musical methods used in older works.

• Use of multiple layers of music, which have been a important part of my music since 2000.
• A simple repeating sequence of chords as the only harmonic material in the piece, which creates a music on the move, in a never ending modulation from the start to the end. Used in works like Haiku (1999), In liquid... (2003) and Image balancantes (2004).
• A 'rhythm across harmony' principle, where different together sounding motives are played in individual tempos across the rhythm of the chords. First used in Smoke (2000) and developed as a technique in Liebestraum (Liszt arrangement from 2005), and later used in 8 momenti mobile (2008) before it finally evolved to the technique used inthis work and Concerto in tempi from 2010.

Martin Lohse 2012