SKU: HH.HH440-FSP

ISBN 9790708146452.

Iber ian Refractions was written in response to a piece of Old Hispanic medieval chant, which gradually works its way into the music movement by movement. The chant melody infiltrates all aspects of the work’s foreground melodic structure, its harmonic backbone and its core inner detail, intensifying as the piece unfolds.

SKU: AP.1-ADV14505

SKU: HH.HH389-FSP

ISBN 9790708146032.

The inspiration for Tread Softly came from two contrasting sources: the religious music of early medieval Spain, and Debbie Locke’s work of art ‘Retracing Your Steps - Bristol I’. Although over a thousand years apart, these two sources share a common feature - a powerful sense of movement enclosed within a static form. In early Spanish music this manifests in the use of extended melisma, and in Locke’s work it is depicted through the seemingly moving, web-like form of the central image. Tread Softly explores the idea of movement within stasis through the use of a main melodic gesture that transforms very slowly, but constantly, throughout.

SKU: HH.HH363-SOL

ISBN 9790708092896.

This piece is a poetic representation of the ice phenomenon diamond dust. Its light, ponderous beginning exploits the guitar’s delicate timbral qualities, while the second, more aggressive section is quite percussive in texture, depicting the full gamut of elements that constitute this elusive state of ice.