In Point for clarinet, cello and piano, I wanted to make an "autobiographical" work, playing with my own birth name to generate rhythms and pitches. So I took the letters of my birth name and gives them a note to each letter, generating a series of pitches. To generate rhythms for each letter I used the old system of telegraphic communication, the Morse system consisting in dots and dashes, points are shorter rhythms and dashes are long rhythms. Upon this simple reasoning I built this trio for clarinet, cello and piano in the early days of my arrival in Paris in 1984.
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.