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from a 2013 sketch for guitar

February 16, 2018

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about cenotaph

Cenotaph was written in 1981, as I remember for a competition for choir at a festival of some kind. I never submitted it so I've never heard it. (see the full score in its own post). I don't know if I missed the deadline, a not unlikely situation considering the time it took to produce a score like this before computer aided notation. Even simple photocopies were difficult to come by. It's also possible I didn't have the funds for photocopies, postage and entry fees. Cenotaph, btw, is a monument erected for someone deceased when there is no body to bury. For those interested, the score was produced on 11x17 transparent paper laid over graph paper. The only tools were a t-square to produce staff lines and bar lines, a technical pen for that lining, and a hand ground esterbrook replacement nib in an oblique shape placed in an esterbrook body.

15 Miniatures in the form of a Sonata

Written in response to a call for scores for a program titled 2000 for 2000, these miniatures were premiered in Paris on New Year's Day, 2000. And, yes, all 2000 works were premiered. It took 2 groups working in alternation to get through all 2000. Considering each group of fifteen took around half a minute, the entire performance would have taken almost 7 hours, not counting breaks and switching performers. I chose to use the sections of a sonata to structure each miniature: the various sections of the first movement - intro, expo, development, recap: 2nd movement in song structure:3rd mvt, rhythmically organized scherzo: 4th mvt variation: ending with a short coda.

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