Chamber Music Solo Organ
SKU: PR.143400020
Megalith III.
Composed by Sydney F.
Hodkinson. With Standard
notation. Duration 9:30.
Theodore Presser Company
#143-40002. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.143400020).
UPC:
680160024308.
The
third in a series of
works for organ by the
contermporary American
composer, Sydney
Hodkinson. It is a
powerful, stunning work
for two organs ( the
second organ may be live
or recorded, and if so, a
few electronic
manipulations of the
sound are employed).
TALAYOT-Megalith III
(Talayot is a large
prehistoric stone hut
consisting of many small
rocks ) was commissioned
by William Albright who
premiered it in 1975. The
composer comments about
TALAYOT, Since 1968, I
had been interested in
both the simplest
reduction of pitch
materials and the
employment of staticity
within a given
time-span... The aural
effect striven for was
not at all unlike walking
around a Calder steel or
a monolithic stone
sculpture: huge, never
changing, yet constantly
different. For studios,
colleges, professional,
libraries. Difficult.
