Piano Quintet
SKU:
BT.CAZCM2KRS01
Composed by Stott. Book
Only. Cadenza Music
#CAZCM2KRS01. Published
by Cadenza Music
(BT.CAZCM2KRS01).
Rachel
Stott's Serendipity
And Household for
Piano
Quintet.
Serendipit
y And Household Objects
grew out of various sound
experiments I made
together with violin and
viola pupils I was
teaching at the time. The
ideawas to find some
extended timbral
possibilities of the
children’s instruments
using only such objects
as one might reasonably
expect to find around the
house a comb or ruler,
empty yoghurt pot,
cutlery, pieces of
paper,chopsticks rather
along the lines of the
television programme
‘the great egg race’
which I used to enjoy as
a child.
The word
‘serendipty’ (‘the
happy knack of making
unexpected and delightful
discoveries by
accident’ Cassell
Concise Dictionary)
describes the way the
finding of the sounds led
to musical ideas.
A
curious point some of the
sounds actually work
better on basic level
children’s instruments
than professional quality
ones. Don’twaste this
piece on a strad…or
vice versa. - Rachel
Stott
Commissioned
by Jean Horsfall