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Mystical Dances

Lookup NU author(s): Professor AgustÝn Fernández

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Abstract

Three orchestral movements exploring psychological processes that trace a continuity from a violent past in 1980s Latin America to the outward calm but inner turmoil of the rural landscape of Northumberland. ‘ordelfire’ takes the textural explorations in Fuego (1987) as a starting point and takes them further by treating them in a harmonically pliable manner, so that each texture functions not only as an argument in itself, but also as a harmonic step in a continuous progression. ‘mooncast’ engages with expressive notions of coldness and warmth, light and darkness, attempting to carry out a meeting of characters originally wide apart. ‘shapeshift’ seeks to synthesise disparities introduced in the preceding movements, by means of motivic integration in a rhythmically propelled high-energy melting-pot effect.


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Composer(s): Fernández A

Publication type: Musical Composition

Publication status: Published

Year: 2006

Publisher: Northern Sinfonia

Place Published: Huddersfield

Type of Work: Orchestral score, concert performance

URL: http://www.trito.es

Notes: Commissioned by Northern Sinfonia, who performed it at the Huddersfield Festival on 19 November 2006 by Northern Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Zehetmair. Repeat performance by Northern Sinfonia scheduled for 1 August 2007 at The Sage Gateshead Hall 1. Further performances scheduled 5, 6 and 12 October 2007 by Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, La Paz, Bolivia. The work was revised following the first performance, in particular the third movement which was rewritten. Printed publication agreed by contract with Tritó of Barcelona, who are already handling the material for hire.


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