Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Guitar, Vibraphone, Piano Chamber SKU: HL.140...(+)
Flute, Clarinet, Violin,
Cello, Guitar,
Vibraphone, Piano Chamber
SKU: HL.14008995
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score. 36
pages. Music Sales
#KP00055. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14008995).
ISBN
9788759878217.
Danish.
Poul Ruders
DIFERENCIASDIFERENCIAS
was an old Spanish naming
of musical compositions
dealing with various
techniques involving
theme and variation. In
modern Spanish it simply
means differences. It's a
nice title, however, and
as to the present piece,
a very fitting one
indeed, because I wrote
it especially to The
Elsinore Players for
their South America-tour
in 1981.Actually nothing
happens to the clipping
of wellknown Bach (the
first four bars of the
chorale: jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring, cantata
No. 147), apart from the
continuous changing of
the succession-pattern of
the 11 triplets and one
duplet, the latter of
which creates the
recognizable 8/8 pattern
amidst the flow of 9/8
spinnrad-rolling. To put
it popularly, I haven't
included anything that
Bach does not have in the
book himself.In addition
to that, the
unpredictable accents and
various instrumental
colours are the only
means of differences.
There are no modulations,
no tricky polyphony,
nothing but a long,
thoughtful tasting the
beautiful piece of tune.
Well, of course, the
chorale itself enters the
picture in the very last
section, but that is
merely for me to have the
pleasure of tossing it
away again before it
comes to a proper
end.Finally, I really do
think, that the
Cage/Morgan poem quoted
below, is the most
suitable prologue to
DIFERENCIAS:14 variations
on 14 wordsI have nothing
to say and I am saying it
and that is poetry. John
CageI have to say poetry
and is that nothing and I
am saying itI am and I
have poetry to say and is
that nothing saying itI
am nothing and I have
poetry to say and that is
saying itI that am saying
poetry have nothing and
it is I and to sayAnd I
say that I am to have
poetry and saying it is
nothingI am poetry and
nothing and saying it is
to say that I haveTo have
nothing is poetry and I
am saying that and I say
itPoetry is saying I have
nothing and I am to say
that and itSaying nothing
I am poetry and I have to
say that and it isIt is
and I am and I have
poetry saying say that to
nothingIt is saying
poetry to nothing and I
say I have and am that
Poetry is saying I have
it and I am nothing and
to say that And that
nothing is poetry I am
saying and I have to say
itSaying poetry is
nothing and to that I say
I am and have itEdwin
MorganPoul Ruders.
