Violin, Cello, Piano Duet
SKU: HL.14041576
Composed by Kevin Volans.
Music Sales America. Book
Only. Composed 2011. 64
pages. Chester Music
#CH74437. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14041576).
9.25x12.0x0.21
inches.
For Violin,
Cello and Piano
Duet.
In the past
composers wrote 'pieces'
of music. More important
pieces were
called'works'. Nowadays,
however, most composers
write minutes. Phone up
anyprofessional composer
and ask how'r'ya doing?
and nine out of ten will
say something like:
'Terrible/ awful ... I've
only written 4 (or .....)
minutes and I have to
write ...
minutes!'
We're all
commissioned to write
minutes - like so many
feet of wallpaper.
Imagine this:' We loved
your Jupiter Symphony Mr.
Mozart, but it's 3
minutes less than
wecommissioned.'
Fortunately most
composers cheat a bit,
and most commissioners
don't sit with
stopwatches in their
hands.1000bars is not
1000 bars long. I stopped
when the piece was
finished. However it did
turn out to be exactly
4'33' in
duration.
What the piece itself is
about has nothing to do
with its title or
length.
&nb
sp;- Kevin Volans