Passalega
for string quartet
Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still indeterminate in terms of pitch. The tissues forming the chain of those tensions were of relatively simple design, yet in spite of this – or perhaps because of it – they were incredibly well suited to generating the expressive narrative that accompanied me throughout that entire pre-composition period. After recognising the character of the musical potential in that material, I considered it to be similar to Baroque rhetoric in terms of the refined clarity and smoothness of the gestures. Inspired by this, I sought to articulate this material in the fullest possible way by tracing a chain of swelling tensions, referring to a homogeneously polyphonic string quartet.
Aleksandra Kolbusz
translated by John Comber
- Cover Design: Marcin Hernas
- Autor tłumaczenia: John Comber
- Redaktor: Agniesza Podsiadło
- Series: Music of Our Times
- ISMN 979-0-2740-3346-0
- Language of edition: eng, pol
- Number of pages: 34 (16+6+4+4+4)
- Cover: softcover
- No. of edition: 1
- Published: 2021
- Type: score and parts
- Size: N4 vertical (235x305 mm)
