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Piano Trio 

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Price:
$30.00
Composer:
Whitehead, Gillian
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Instrumentation:
piano trio
Year composed:
2005
Duration:
12:00
Format:
220x305, pp28, saddle-stapled
ISBN:
1-877381-96-9
Description:
One winter morning, a short walk from the marae at Waihī on the southern shore of Lake Taupo, I stood on the shore to watch the sun rise. Behind me, a waterfall led to a small stream that flowed into the lake, imposing its own patterns on those of the lake. The water was uniformly grey, but as the sun rose, for a moment the tops of the ripples were golden, mountains with dark valleys between, before the whole area was flooded with light. So the ideas behind this trio have to do with the changing perspectives of patterns in water—in the bubbling of streams, the tumble of a waterfall, in the spiralling eddies where stream meets lake at sunrise. In the first movement, a group of short themes and ideas initially forms a mosaic-like section that recurs in developed and varied forms around more re ective passages. The second movement reverses the first, in that slow sustained sections are interrupted by more energetic material, while the final part draws all the previous themes together.
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