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Terrasse i 5 Afsatser (1970)
(Terrace in 5 Stages)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
- fl, ob, cl, bn, hn
- 16 min
Programme Note
The word "terrace" refers to the sharp separation of the five movements - "levels". It applies, for example, to volume-level. The term "terrace dynamics" is used in connection with baroque music and can reasonably be associated with this quintet. The volume-levels shift abruptly from movement to movement. Each has its own fixed (more or less) dynamic plane (the second movement however is a long crescendo and must therefore be called an inclined plane). The substance of the "levels" is also stylistically sharply distinguished:
1. Extreme static simplicity with the same major second in octave-redistribution in the four instruments and diatonic movement in the oboe;
2. Tone-repetitions of diatonic "clusters" in different constant tempi;
3. Major-minor, clear and unmistakeable;
4. Chromatic imitations carried o a ridicilous extreme (or "ad absurdum", as they say in academic circles);
5. Disintegrated "Abgesang".
The quintet was composed in 1970 and is dedicatd to The Danish WInd Quintet.
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1. Extreme static simplicity with the same major second in octave-redistribution in the four instruments and diatonic movement in the oboe;
2. Tone-repetitions of diatonic "clusters" in different constant tempi;
3. Major-minor, clear and unmistakeable;
4. Chromatic imitations carried o a ridicilous extreme (or "ad absurdum", as they say in academic circles);
5. Disintegrated "Abgesang".
The quintet was composed in 1970 and is dedicatd to The Danish WInd Quintet.
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen