Iain Matheson - Catalogue
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Every Moment Alters (2004)
Programme Note available
Iain Matheson
First performance:
BBC Philharmonic / James MacMillan, Manchester, 18 Dec 2004
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - YELLOW [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: hard disk (sibelius file) [enquire]
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Programme Note availableIain Matheson
First performance:
BBC Philharmonic / James MacMillan, Manchester, 18 Dec 2004
Work Details
Category: orchestral
Duration: 11'
Instrumentation: 3(1)2+12+12 4231 Str
Duration: 11'
Instrumentation: 3(1)2+12+12 4231 Str
SMC Holdings
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - YELLOW [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: hard disk (sibelius file) [enquire]
Part(s) / Location: hire library [enquire]
Part(s) / Location: hire library [enquire]Programme Note
"Every moment alters what is done,
And innovates some act till then unknown."
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book 15, trans. John Dryden (1717)
The pattern of variation is one of music's oldest formal designs. Its most obvious feature is the use of altered repetition to create continuity; but also the principle that what remains the same is as important as what is varied.
'Every Moment Alters' varies a single melodic line, and a sequence of chords based on it. The title indicates that the passage of time is itself a process of variation; a series of apparently similar moments which are crucially different from one another.
"Every moment alters what is done,
And innovates some act till then unknown."
Ovid: Metamorphoses Book 15, trans. John Dryden (1717)
The pattern of variation is one of music's oldest formal designs. Its most obvious feature is the use of altered repetition to create continuity; but also the principle that what remains the same is as important as what is varied.
'Every Moment Alters' varies a single melodic line, and a sequence of chords based on it. The title indicates that the passage of time is itself a process of variation; a series of apparently similar moments which are crucially different from one another.
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