| Reconstituted Memories
attempts to employ several compositional techniques common to 20th century
music. Inspiration was drawn from jazz, Renaissance isorhythmic practices
and serialism. This is not my first attempt at drawing from these
musical wells. In a 1988 piece titled 12 Bar, 12 Tone, I attempted
to marry 12-tone serialism and the blues in a work for orchestra.
In Reconstituted Memories, a less strict approach is applied to
the three aforementioned practices. The piece consists of three central
musical elements: a contrapuntal melodic theme; a chord progression; and
an isorhythmic pattern. With isorhythm as the glue between sections,
the melodic theme and chord progression are presented separately and together
in various incarnations. The presentation of each is derived from
serial procedures. |
