David Borden - The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part 11 (animated graphical score)

Опубликовано: 15 Июнь 2025
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Part Eleven of 'The Continuing Story of Counterpoint' is dedicated to the late pianist Edmund Niemann and numerologically takes its content from his birthdate, 12/25/1945. There are two musical elements: chords and a melodic idea. The duration of the chords and the number of notes in the melody derive from the date. A large portion of this piece is taken up with canons at the unison or octave that utilize the melody. The midsection is a two-voiced canon in Piano 2 accompanied by triads and arpeggiated chords in Piano 1. In the canon, at first the upper voice leads, but halfway through the lower voice takes the lead. Directly following, there is a series of four-voiced canons, each treated slightly differently in terms of rhythmic entrances and timbre. In general, the canonic entrances follow each other very quickly. On either side of these canons are quotes from Parts One and Two of TCSOC, mixed with new material. During the large outer sections, there is more canonic treatment of the melodic idea including augmentations and retrograde. The overall structure can be expressed as A-B-C-C1-B-A-A1.
description adapted from composer's notes

Originally scored for two pianos or keyboards. This piece has been performed live only twice: once in April 1990 by piano duo Double Edge (Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann) and again in January 2020 by Xak Bjerken and Richard Valitutto.

Soundfont used:
1963 Mellotron Mk I Piano

Made using Stephen Malinowski's Music Animation Machine: http://www.musanim.com/index.html