Cello Counterpoint [HL:48023972]

Cello Counterpoint [HL:48023972]

Boosey & Hawkes

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UPC:
888680659288
EAN:
9781495083433
ISBN:
1495083438
Instrumentation:
Study Score
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
72
UPC:
888680659288
Format:
Softcover. Study Score
Subtitle:
Version for Cello Octet. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
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Cello Counterpoint (2003) is scored for eight cellos, and can be played by a soloist with the other parts pre-recorded. This tape is available from the Boosey & Hawkes rental library. Alternately, the piece can be played by a Cello Octet. (There are differences in distribution of parts between the two versions.) The piece is in three movements: fast, slow, fast. The first and last movements are both based on a similar four-chord cycle that moves ambiguously back and forth between C minor and E-flat major. This harmonic cycle is treated extremely freely however, particularly in the third movement. The second, slow movement, is a canon in E-flat minor involving, near the end of the movement, seven separate voices. The piece is a little more than 11 minutes in duration, and was co-commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and Leiden University, for cellist Maya Beiser.