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- Per Nørgård
Skitser, Op. 25a (1959)
(Sketches)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
Four Sketches, Opus 25a from 1959, is dedicated to Anelise Knudsen (formerly Nørgård) and was premiered by Anker Blyme on March 6, 1960 at the State Museum of Arts – along with Nine Studies.
Four Sketches can be constructed as a – very little – little sister to Nine Studies, composed the same year! As in the Studies, I used the above-mentioned construction technique related to the medieval Color/Talea-practice: a melodic sequence is paired with a rhythmic sequence that always has one duration less than that of the numbers of notes. The Four Sketches,however, are light and transparent in comparison with the complex density of the Nine Studies. The movements have the following designations:
1. Freely flowing
2. Capricious
3. Moving – Slow (without steady tempo)
4. Gracefully reserved
In Sketch No. 3, the complete tone-row from Sketch No. 1 is heard again, but here more vaguely and with chords making an appearance analogous to the third and fourth movements of the later composed Fragments I-IV”.¨
Per Nørgård, 2009
Four Sketches can be constructed as a – very little – little sister to Nine Studies, composed the same year! As in the Studies, I used the above-mentioned construction technique related to the medieval Color/Talea-practice: a melodic sequence is paired with a rhythmic sequence that always has one duration less than that of the numbers of notes. The Four Sketches,however, are light and transparent in comparison with the complex density of the Nine Studies. The movements have the following designations:
1. Freely flowing
2. Capricious
3. Moving – Slow (without steady tempo)
4. Gracefully reserved
In Sketch No. 3, the complete tone-row from Sketch No. 1 is heard again, but here more vaguely and with chords making an appearance analogous to the third and fourth movements of the later composed Fragments I-IV”.¨
Per Nørgård, 2009
