Io

Instrumentation: Piano solo

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Io is an experiment in composing an easy ‘child-like’ tune into a more complicated music texture. The idea came up with the inspiration of Villa-lobos’ ‘The Baby’s Family’, which combines the easy tunes into different complicated sounds. In his composition, there are more 

Varieties in rhythms and texture. Io starts with a ‘child-like’ main theme, then going to an atonal theme with a stable base rhythm. There is a sudden apparent off-beat three ascending quavers, which will appear oftenly in the coming passage in different variations, including descending and repeated semi quaver. The main theme is repeating in variations of triplets; breaking into fragments and rearrange into the atonal sound.