Basic ragtime /
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| Author / Creator: | Finnissy, Michael, composer. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016] |
| Description: | 1 score (33 pages) + 4 parts ; 30 cm |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
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| Format: | Music score Print |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10906520 |
| Summary: | Basic Ragtime is a collection of short movements for a small group of string players and piano. I collected them together at the request of Rodney Lister, for a performance at the New England Conservatorium in Boston. Numbers II, III, VI, and VII had been written, or sketched, some years previously as gifts for the dedicatees, and their names - in cipher - provided some of the pitch material. This procedure was also followed in number V, but not in the other sections, which draw material from works already familiar to the students: the second of the Dvorak Bagatelles Op.47 and the first movement of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525. I added number VIII in 2013 in memory of Richard Rodney Bennett.<br> Scott Joplin's injunction 'not to play ragtime too fast' is also to be followed here. The resultant sound-world should seem elegant and sedate rather than raucous in its rhythmic swing; the textures translucent, quite Chopinesque for the piano. |
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| Item Description: | Movements I, III, V, and VII for two violins, cello, and piano ; movements II, VI, and VIII for solo piano ; movements IV and IX for three violins, cello, and piano. Composed 2008-2015. Composer's note in English. Publication date from publisher's website. |
| Physical Description: | 1 score (33 pages) + 4 parts ; 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780193388994 0193388995 |
