Looking for Answers

Looking for Answers

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Scoring & Instrumentation
Piano Trio and Fixed Media
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Year Authored (or revised)
Duration (min)
20
Movements
I. Frozen Questions
II. Contemplation
III. Dance

Files & Media

Audio

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Video
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Description

Composer's Note:

Looking for Answers augments a standard piano trio of violin, cello, and piano with electronically manipulated sounds derived from the same instruments. The sonorities and certain stubbornly recurring intervallic structures in “Frozen Questions” seek answers with serious but nearly paralyzing determination.

In a series of inwardly spiraling thoughts, “Contemplation” interacts with and is often swept away by an electronic fog of modified piano sounds.

“Dance” shrugs its shoulders and turns its back on the quest, mixing dance rhythms from several continents and cultures. Perhaps this is the only appropriate answer.

Looking for Answers was written for the radiant Mojave Trio.

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First Perfomance
February 5, 2011, Mojave Trio.
Recording
May 6, 2014. Albany Records. Mojave Trio: Sara Parkins, violin; Maggie Parkins, cello; Genevieve Feiwen Lee, piano.
Text Language - Non English

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Ensemble Type
duo or ensemble+audio playback
instrumental trio
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Instrument
piano , violin , cello , tape (audio) fixed media
Purchase Options
PDF License & Download
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$41.00 score + 2 parts
Score includes link to fixed media download.
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