Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.14440516S Com...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Clarinet, Flute, Piano,
Violin
SKU:
PR.14440516S
Composed
by Robert Martin. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 44 pages.
Duration 9 minutes, 15
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40516S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.14440516S).
UPC:
680160667864. 9 x 12
inches.
In 1979,
Martin produced a set of
three quintets, in
consideration of Gorky's
piece Nighttime Enigma
Nostalgia. Each is scored
for flute, clarinet,
violin, cello, and piano.
As the title suggests,
the music is in a state
of perpetual questioning
using a variety of
approaches. For example,
Enigma opens using
ostinati (plural of
ostinato) that do not
match in length, like a
staircase with each step
a different height.
Additionally, the music
has sudden starts and
stops, again unexplained.
There are dramatic and
powerful explosive
passages that are
interrupted. The
technique, used to create
this feeling of a
perplexed music world
where things seem often
not to make sense and to
be left unresolved, is
called in poetry and
literature, anticlimax.
In Enigma, the music
suggests one direction;
then refuses to continue,
striking out in another
direction. Artists use
approaches such as this
to force themselves into
creative circumstances
that they otherwise might
not have discovered.
(From the performance
notes.).