Zvony Nagy
[a]new
(2018)
for clarinet
Duration: 5'
Solos:
clarinet
[a]new
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Work introduction
Composed as a study for solo clarinet, [a]new, translates Gertrude Stein’s poem New to music.
By systematically mapping the ASCII letter characters from every word in the verse to musical structure, every line becomes a phrase, resulting in modal and metric forms that emerge from the text itself.