Keyboards - Piano Piano
Solo
SKU: AY.FRD37
Composed by John La
Montaine. Keyboards -
Piano. Fredonia Press
#FRD37. Published by
Fredonia Press
(AY.FRD37).
ISBN
9790302114659.
John
La Montaine's Twelve
Relationships for Piano
Solo consists of twelve
short canons: Bold and
Plain, Teasing,
Plaintive, Bittersweet,
Wayward, Saucy,
Entreating, Piquant,
Brooding, Spirited and
Jubilant. It was
originally composed in
1965. A canon is the
strictest form of
composition, in which two
or more parts take up in
succession exactly the
same musical subject.
Each of the canons in
Twelve Relationships is
at a different interval.
That is, the second
entrance of the subject
begins on a different
note in each canon, and
that note is always
different from the first
entrance. Twelve
different intervals are
utilized in the twelve
canons. Each of these
canons is strict in its
succession of intervals
from the first note to
the last. The first canon
is at the octave and
therefore in one and the
same key. All of the
others at different
intervals, since they are
strict, are
simultaneously in two
different keys. There is
no other known set of
canons so composed. The
title Twelve
Relationships may be
understood in two senses.
One refers to the form,
the intervallic
relationships mentioned
above. The other refers
to the content, that is,
to the psychological
relationships that are
implied by the titles of
the individual canons and
which form the musical
substance of the pieces.
Jocelyn Mackey (Pan
Pipes, music critic):
Twelve Relationships
contains twelve two-part
canons with titles like,
Plaintive, Sprightly,
Saucy, Brooding. The
first, Bold and Plain, is
composed with imitation
at the fifth, while a
different interval is
used in each of the other
eleven. Just as the
Well-Tempered Clavier
contains preludes in each
possible key, each
possible interval of
imitation is used in this
set of canons. Amazing
contrapuntal skill..
