Cello and Piano
SKU:
HL.14006097
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book and Part(s). Music
Sales #KP00873. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14006097).
ISBN
9788759872222.
Danish.
Programme
Note CANTICA for cello
and piano (1977)When in
1975 I had finished
composing my Symphony no.
3 (begun in 1973), I
wrote three simple
melodies for two psalm
texts by Ole Sarvig: The
Year and Choral Hymn.
These three tunes were
derived from the same
material as the second
movement of the symphony
and could be harmonized
together in several
different tempo
relationships, like
proportional canons. For
this reason they inspired
me to write several
choral and instrumental
works in the following
decade: Frost Psalm,
Winter Cantata, the tuba
octet Now all the earth
is white with snow,
Canticles (and
others).Cantica, meaning
song or singing, was
composed (forthe Danish
musicians Hans Erik
Dechert og Kjeld Hansen)
as a instrumental little
brother the long,
polyphonic choral pieces.
As in these the canonical
melodies in Cantica drift
from foreground to
background, from cello to
piano. The melodies are
simple, diatonic and in
traditional rhythms and
the surface of the music
in a way traditional. The
intention of the composer
with this easily
understood expression is
to lead the listeners
ears to the many
internal, proportional
developments. The story
is in a way hidden
between the lines. In the
myriads of rhythmic and
tempo relations the
Golden Mean (near to
2:3:5:8: et cetera) plays
an important role, like
in nature. Among the
experiences giving by
this natural phenomenon
are - perhaps - the
musical points to be
found (?).Per
Norgard(1997).
