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Fine Tuning (1998-99) Duration: 12' 40" Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano Alternate Versions: Availability: from the composer Recordings: n/a Program Notes: Fine Tuning was originally conceived as a piano trio and was to begin where (in this version as a sextet), the cello and piano first appear approximately two minutes into the piece. Most of the chosen pitch material of this work is based upon, or derived from, a 13-note sequence not unlike the "row" of early 20th century 12-tone music. (This 13-note sequence can be heard in it's "purest" form in the cello, just prior to the slow section between piano and strings that occurs more than halfway through the piece.) The similarities end there however, as this work has an unquestionable tendency to gravitate towards tonal centers, and at times even becomes lyrically melodic.First Performance: Other Performances: |