Violin and piano -
advanced
SKU:
HL.49045998
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Vijay Iyer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Softcover.
Composed 2018. 44 pages.
Duration 13'. Schott
Music #ED 30262.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49045998).
ISBN
9781540034960. UPC:
888680790998.
9.0x12.0x0.142
inches.
In The
Diamond Sutra, an early
Buddhist text also known
as The Diamond that Cuts
Through Illusion, the
Buddha leads his
interlocutor, the Elder
Subhuti, through a series
of questions and
provocations. The Buddha
then concludes the
session by offering this
teaching to those
assembled:All composed
things are like a dream,a
phantom, a drop of dew, a
flash of lightning.That
is how to meditate on
them;that is how to
observe them.This duo
piece is in four
sections, corresponding
roughly to these four
disparate visions of
impermanence: four
distinct moments of
interplay between form
and emptiness, four
corners of a diamond.
This series of images is
itself a 'composed
thing,' gathering
dissimilar elements into
a unified system. It
suggests that the things
we make are similar to
things that exist beyond
intention. The Buddha's
utterance helps us hear
so-called 'composition'
and 'improvisation' - or
the encompassing
category, 'music' - as
part of an even larger
aggregate: that which
forms and recedes.- Vijay
Iyer.
