Cello Counterpoint: Version for Solo Cello and Tape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495083426)

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Cello Counterpoint (2003) is scored for eight cellos, and can be played by a soloist with the other parts pre-recorded. This tape is available from the Boosey & Hawkes rental library. Alternately, the piece can be played by a Cello Octet. (There are differences in distribution of parts between the two versions.) The piece is in three movements: fast, slow, fast. The first and last movements are both based on a similar four-chord cycle that moves ambiguously back and forth between C minor and E-flat major. This harmonic cycle is treated extremely freely however, particularly in the third movement. The second, slow movement, is a canon in E-flat minor involving, near the end of the movement, seven separate voices. The piece is a little more than 11 minutes in duration, and was co-commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and Leiden University, for cellist Maya Beiser.

Author: Steve Reich
ISBN-10: 149508342X
ISBN-13: 9781495083426
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 10.30h x 6.60w x 0.20d