Kaleidoscope (Caleidoscópio) n.1 for flute and string quartet. Full Score (2004)
SM-000079257
Description
- Alternative title
- Variações históricas (historical variations)
- Composer
- Zoltan Paulinyi
- Publisher
- Zoltan Paulinyi
- Genre
- Classical / Chamber music
- Instrumentation
- Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello
- Scored for
- Quintet
- Type of score
- Full score
- Duration
- 11'0"
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Year of composition
- 2004
- Description
- Brazilian variations and theme.
“Kaleidoscope” is a voyage through time, describing the saga of an european family from a history that starts in the Middle Age, crossing the world wide wars and finally arriving to the Brazilian agreste. The unconventional disposal of the musicians on stage enhances the musical space structure, not only amplifying the antiphon of the beginning, but also intensifying the audience involvement in the central atonalism of the piece. The sound sources displacement reinforces the time displacement.
Appearing almost at the end of the piece, the theme is built on the northeastern melody style (cantiga). It has two motives: an ascending arpeggio and a set of descending joint degrees. The alternation of all the modes has structural character.
Each variation represents a historical period [...]
- Upload date
- 02 Oct 2011
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