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II. FUGATO (from triptych "Lutos​ł​awski: In Memoriam")

from HOMMAGES | Lutos​ł​awski | P​ä​rt | Takemitsu | Piazzolla | De Falla | Mehldau by MAREK PASIECZNY

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inspired by LUTOSLAWSKI’s “SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS”

Lutoslawski’s Symphonic Variations was premiered in 1939. It is a tonal piece, but can be clearly identified as a work belonging to the 20th century. The central theme is ten-bars long, which we hear subjected to seven variations and a fugal conclusion. With my Fugato, a three-bar theme shapes the entire movement in fugal form. The Fugato is a tonal construct based on the chromatic scale.

Like Lutoslawski’s, my theme is also very varied in its subsequent apparitions. Lutoslawski’s rhythmic and melodic motives presented in the main theme are also subjected to constant variations, and the composer also exploits tone colour in his initial orchestration as a source for variations. Continuing this idea, I develop rhythmic and melodic structures/motives taken form my own theme throughout, and play with timbre using performance techniques such as “ponticello” and “tasto”.

I also borrow two ideas propounded by twelve-tone pioneer Arnold Schoenberg (later used by Webern) in the same way as Lutoslawski chose to do. These are: “Klangfarbenmelodie” ("Melody of Tone Colors") and "perpetual variation."

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from HOMMAGES | Lutos​ł​awski | P​ä​rt | Takemitsu | Piazzolla | De Falla | Mehldau, released January 13, 2013

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