Septet

• Waltzing
  
• Con Fuoco
• Passacaglia Interotto
• Tranquillo
• Finale

This five-movement work is an exploration of the new and the old. There are familiar textures presented in new ways. New and confrontational sounds presented in a way that seems like we have always known them. The composition flows through classical forms but bends their structures to fit within a new musical idiom. The second movement plays with metric modulation and quirky juxtapositions of shuffled semi-quavers vs. straight semi-quavers. The metric modulations that appear throughout the work give the listener a strange feeling of being both grounded in a metric rhythmic pattern, as well as uneasily settling into a new musical feel. There are lyrical melodies, rhythmic impetuous grooves, and intimate instrumental colours that draw the listener in.

︎Septet.pdf

Flute
B♭ Clarinet
Bassoon
2 Violins
Viola
Cello

30:00

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