Scores in Character Dances
These Character Dances are a description of five people that influenced my life, a diary of our interactions. As miniatures, they take an abstract view of a person and do their best to convey it in a short span of music. Each of the movements has its own process that carries throughout the whole.
- Date: December 2008
- Status: Completed
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- Character Dances - 1: AS - Solo Piano
A short image for piano describing a 'character' in my life, defined by its descending stepwise bass-line and chromatic skips in the treble.
- Character Dances - 2: TW - Solo Piano
The second of the miniatures describing an important influence in my life, Characterized by a constant baseline and a meandering treble indicating the battle between ...
- Character Dances - 3: Others - Solo Piano
The third miniature in the set is a collage of those other people in my life, representing unobtainable goals, if only due to the fact ...
- Character Dances - 4: KK - Solo Piano
Inexplicable changes are wrought in a chaotic systems by a strange attractor; this miniature modulates a half-step through a difficult, though not unpleasant process.
- Character Dances - 5: JC - Solo Piano
The fifth and final movement in Character Dances shows two distinct-yet-similar lines coming together finally after failed attempts and false starts.
Matthew Scott 2008
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