H639k62_5

Instrumentation: Violin Piano

 

H639k62_5 is composed by imitating Bartok’s pieces of folk tunes. A few main folk-like themes are throughout the music, they are mostly singable and dance-like melodic lines. To imitate the improvising sound of folk tunes some trill-like thirty-second notes and tremolos are added to the themes. Although the themes are mostly atonal, there are minor sound variations of the themes in the middle of the piece to form a brief sonata form in the piece.

 

This piece is a minimalist piece, different from traditional minimalism; this piece explores the repetition of the chromatic scales and the three notes pattern, by transposing the patterns in different ranges of rhythmic duplets or smooth triplets, which constantly appears throughout the piece. 

 

H639k62_5 focuses on the shifting in beats by placing the accents in different quavers. The mixing of different rhythmic patterns together helps to push and pull the changing rhythms. The music starts with 2 quavers beat pattern, slowly introduces the 3-quavers beat pattern, and takes over the pulse; as a transformation, it developed into a 2-dotted quavers pattern leading to a change in tempo from quaver=90 (dotted quaver=60) to a related slower tempo, quaver=60. The music ends with a mixture of fragmentary 2 and 3 patterns. The music compares in different beats of 2 and 3 including quavers (tempo=90), dotted quavers (tempo=60), triples, and duplets.