Program note: "Kick" was written specifically for a band gig at London's South bank Centre. Indeed, as the event was supposedly connected to the 1996 European football cup final, the South Bank promoter made the booking conditional on my providing a new piece with a football theme! Doing my best to find a connection where none exists, I decided to take an anonymous English folk fiddle melody of the 17th century and write some straightforward variations on the tune. The last variation almost reinstates the original tune, but this time the dance is undermined by alternating regular and irregular meters. -Steve Martland (2001)
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Program note:
"Kick" was written specifically for a band gig at London's South bank Centre. Indeed, as the event was supposedly connected to the 1996 European football cup final, the South Bank promoter made the booking conditional on my providing a new piece with a football theme! Doing my best to find a connection where none exists, I decided to take an anonymous English folk fiddle melody of the 17th century and write some straightforward variations on the tune. The last variation almost reinstates the original tune, but this time the dance is undermined by alternating regular and irregular meters.
-Steve Martland (2001)
Two violins?
Minimalisme ? No, post-classicisme.