{"id":506,"date":"2016-01-14T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=506"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:38","slug":"thomas-three-transformations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/thomas-three-transformations\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas &#8211; Three Transformations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Three transformations (for 2 marimbists)<\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Thomas<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI derived each of these three movements from works by J. S. Bach that I have recast and reconstructed in a new form and harmonic structure.\u00a0 Each movement is a metamorphosis and homage to Bach\u2019s original composition.<\/p>\n<p>All three of Bach\u2019s compositions are in triple meters.\u00a0 I rebarred each in duple (4\/4) meter, thus forcing myself to rethink the harmonic rhythms, making the music plausible in the new time signature.<\/p>\n<p>Originally I composed the first movement, <em>Lord Cavendish<\/em>, for marimba and harpsichord.\u00a0 This score is dedicated to William Moersch and Charlotte Mattax for their wedding. The music in <em>Lord Cavendish<\/em> is the closest to Bach\u2019s original composition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pedro and Olga Learn to Dance<\/em> was the message (in the 1960\u2019s) of a second-story neon sign on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side.\u00a0 I have interpolated more of my own music into this work, also changing the original from major to minor.<\/p>\n<p>I dedicate <em>Rhumbarubio<\/em> to Nancy Zeltsman and Janis Potter.\u00a0 The structure is a kind of mad chorale-prelude with Bach\u2019s music flickering \u2013 ghost like \u2013 in and out of a perpetually moving texture.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the sources for the music:<\/p>\n<p><em>Lord Cavendish Strikes the Right Note: <\/em>Prelude in Eb Major from the Well Tempered Clavier, Book II<\/p>\n<p><em>Pedro and Olga Learn to Dance: <\/em>Fugue in F Major from the Well Tempered Clavier,<\/p>\n<p>Book I<\/p>\n<p><em>Rhumbarubio: <\/em>Gigue from the E Minot English Suite<\/p>\n<p>(Notes from the Composer)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Robert McCarthy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three transformations (for 2 marimbists) By Andrew Thomas \u201cI derived each of these three movements from works by J. S. Bach that I have recast and reconstructed in a new form and harmonic structure.\u00a0 Each movement is a metamorphosis and homage to Bach\u2019s original composition. All three of Bach\u2019s compositions are in triple meters.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}