Vivier, Claude: Désintégration (1974) 30'
Revised version for 2 pianos and six strings (with optional tape)
Scoring
2pft-4vln.2vla tape.
Abbreviations (PDF).
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
Programme Note Deutsch Français
Richard Toop writes that, “the idea of Désintégration is a basic rhythmic grid, initially populated by fistfuls of notes, gradually ‘eaten away;’ at first the pianists alternate, but as the process of erosion gets under way, they increasingly overlap and interlock.” Vivier himself wrote, “this work was entirely predetermined; not a single note was left to chance.” Clearly, at this early point in Vivier’s development, the influence of the post-war generation of musical structuralists was far from over.
© Bob Gilmore
Note reproduced by permission of the author.
Revised version for 2 pianos and six strings (with optional tape)
Scoring
2pft-4vln.2vla tape.
Abbreviations (PDF).
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
Programme Note Deutsch Français
Richard Toop writes that, “the idea of Désintégration is a basic rhythmic grid, initially populated by fistfuls of notes, gradually ‘eaten away;’ at first the pianists alternate, but as the process of erosion gets under way, they increasingly overlap and interlock.” Vivier himself wrote, “this work was entirely predetermined; not a single note was left to chance.” Clearly, at this early point in Vivier’s development, the influence of the post-war generation of musical structuralists was far from over.
© Bob Gilmore
Note reproduced by permission of the author.
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