Oliver Knussen: Reflection (Score And Parts)

Media Type: Book and Part(s) Media/Arrangement: Violin and Piano Published By: Faber Music Item Code: 0571520561

Product Description:

This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano Oliver Knussen’s penultimate work is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion: a six-note mode reflected in its complement: and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too, the work’s opus number (31a) demonstrating a relationship to Knussen’s unfinished Cleveland Pictures: ‘The main melody began as a response to Gauguin’s painting of a Breton woman swimming’, Knussen wrote, ‘and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventuallybreaking the surface at the end of the piece.’

Genre: Contemporary Music
Skill level: Advanced
Publisher: Faber Music
First published: 2019
ISBN: 9780571520565