Per Nørgård
En Lys Time / A Light Hour
Per Nørgård
En Lys Time / A Light Hour
- Besetzung Percussion-Ensemble
- Komponist Per Nørgård
- Ausgabe Partitur und Stimmen
- Verlag Edition Wilhelm Hansen
- Bestell-Nr. WH30964A
Lieferzeit 2-4 Wochen
Beschreibung:
Set of parts for Per Norgard's En Lys Time / A Light Hour (2008-09) for a variable Percussion Ensemble (min. 10 players).
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms andmotifs - is based on Norgard´s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for 'any number of percussionmusicians' (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Eachmusicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments - vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like.
The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Norgard has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (forchoir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III.
Special 'tone-feasts' (the composer's term) - followed by a rest- are an recognizable
melodic feature of the work. : the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of anhour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) - and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over...).
The first 15 minutes have a bright, lightcharacter throughout, and alternate between
rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly
percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves inthe
In A Light Hour everything - rhythms andmotifs - is based on Norgard´s special infinity series.
Score: WH30964
Programme note
A Light Hour is for 'any number of percussionmusicians' (but a minimum of ten). The duration is about 60 minutes. The instrumentation is in principle open, as long as percussion is used within the three types specified in the score: skin, metal and wood. Eachmusicianuses two sound sources with two different sounds, one of which is bright (or light) and the other dark. Certain passages also include tuned percussion instruments - vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, gamelan, glockenspiel, steel drums, crotales and the like.
The work integrates and combines a number of rhythms that Norgard has used in percussion works since the 1970s, for example in Early Spring Dance (forchoir and percussion), and percussion works like I Ching, Easy Beats, Whirls, Zigzag, Nemo Dynamo and Echo Zone I-II-III.
Special 'tone-feasts' (the composer's term) - followed by a rest- are an recognizable
melodic feature of the work. : the first minute end with a short tone-feast (and a rest), the first four minutes end with a tone-feast lasting a minute (and a rest), the first quarter of anhour ends with a tone-feast of four minutes (and a rest) - and the work ends with a tone-feast lasting quarter of an hour (and a rest, when the work is over...).
The first 15 minutes have a bright, lightcharacter throughout, and alternate between
rhythms and melodic play. The following 15 minutes are more insistent and decidedly
percussion-based, Afro-Cuban, whereas the third quarter of A Light Hour moves inthe