Four
Voice Canon #4 (marimba)
Date: 1978/79Place:
Canadian National Composer/Choreographer Seminar, written
for a dance by Andréa Smith, percussionist William Winant; revised,
Mills
College, 1980
Instrumentation: One marimba (full four
octave),
four parts
Elements: pitch (each voice uses
four higher
pitches from the harmonic series), duration, accent (each four element
permutation has an accent on first element, "out of synch" with
grupetti)
Comments: Later rewritten for
Dean Drummond's
harmonic series tuned Zoomoozophone;
Fibbonacci approximations of golden mean ratios, in a kind of
rhythmicana. On
Artifact CD, The Theory of Impossible
Melody.
Score for new edition (10/05/05).
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