Greenbaum: Equator Loops
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- Composer: Stuart Greenbaum (1966-)
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Equator Loops (2000)
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- Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches
Description
Equator Loops is based on a simple melodic idea that expands and contracts step-wise in a "mirror image" of itself around the note D in the very centre of the piano keyboard. Development is strictly organic – this single idea is used exclusively throughout the piece – and progresses in "waves" of fluctuating intensity. The composer's decision to limit himself to such minimal germinal material lends the piece a hypnotic, even obsessive, feeling; interest is focused on the development of a demisemiquaver rhythmic motive and gradual expansion of the music into wider registers.