Violin, cello, piano
SKU: HL.49045318
Score and Parts.
Composed by Fred Lerdahl.
This edition: Folder.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Softcover.
Composed 2012. 172 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #ED31156. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045318).
ISBN
9781495082535. UPC:
888680656669.
9.5x12.0x0.515
inches.
The title
refers to three
instruments, three
movements, and three ways
of treating musical time.
The tone of the work is
serious yet as playful as
the title suggests.The
first movement, Ratios,
opens with a series of
seemingly unrelated ideas
in tempo ratios of 3:2
and 4:3. As the movement
proceeds, the ideas
develop, transform, and
superimpose in
increasingly wide
spirals. The slower
second movement, Cycles,
is a fantasy built on the
strict scaffolding of an
omnipresent, diatonic
cantus firmus set in
symmetrically expanding
and contracting cycles.
The quick finale, Phases,
is a moto perpetuo
tarantella in which the
instruments move in and
out of phase as they
chase one another. The
flowing eighth notes
merge and finally unify
ideas from the previous
movements.