Orchestra - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14000916
Composed by Hans
Abrahamsen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 55
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH29689.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14000916).
ISBN
9788759859179.
12.0x16.5x0.538 inches.
English.
Stratifica
tions was composed by
Hans Abrahamsen in
1973-75 and was premiered
in the summer 1977 by the
Iceland Symphony
Orchestra at the Young
Nordic Music Festival in
Reykjavik. Programme
note: The stratifications
referred to in the title
unfold two different
levels. There is the
stratification of the
time dimension produced
by the opposition of
contrasting parts, at the
same time the polyphony,
the presence of several
simultaneously sounding
layers, is of great
importance to the music.
By garish colours and
clear-cut outlines a
polyrhythmic
simultaneousness of
simple melodies is
produced with more gestic
music and other material
which give a peculiar set
piece-like effect inthe
sound picture. The new
simplicity details are
here woven together in a
new kind of complex
whole. Stratifications
begins with a series of
concretistic masklike
pictures of the music. It
is like seeing lantern
slides. But this fictive
form crackles and the
music gets attentive and
real. The music is in a
night-mare condition,
where it is not getting
anywhere in spite of a
great dynamic display.
But finally is liberating
itself and rising in
triumph.