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The angel of death (Sketches) - Public domain music sheet scan

The angel of death (Sketches) - Public domain music sheet scan

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Sketches for a musical composition for piano, chamber orchestra, and computer-processed sound by Roger Reynolds.
Title supplied by composer.
Cataloged from digital copy; original manuscript in the possession of the composer.
Commissioned by Ircam for the 2001 Agora Festival, Paris.
First performed: 7 June 2001, 2001 Agora Festival, Paris.
Duration: 34 min.
Leaf 1 is the first general sketch for the form of the chamber piano concerto: The angel of death. Leaf 2 is a more advanced plan for the overall form of The angel of death showing the placement of sections and their relative proportions. Leaf 3 is the first 6 and a half minutes of the fully developed plan for The angel of death. Leaf 4 is the "textural sketch" positing the nature and proportions of Theme 4 (of the work's five thematic elements.). Leaf 5 is the opening of the ensemble realization of the textural plan (shown in Leaf 4) for Theme 4 of The angel of death. Leaf 6 is the plan for the culminating computer segment (or "image" of The angel of death: S7.) (Content)

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1980 - 1990
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