Daily Study no. 98 - "Sunrise" for String Quartet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Today's piece is a study in a shimmering texture, like yesterday's piece, and like my last string quartet. Like yesterday, I use trills to create a shimmer, but this piece adds a bit of quasi-polytonality to the mix.
The central idea of the study is the B major viola melody (with B major trills in the violins) over a G natural pedal. At times, this creates a G lydian effect whenever the viola is on B or C# (while the G# in the 2nd violin hints a subtle extended lydian colour) but the prominent D#s in the viola melody make it clear that even though G is the bass note, it is not the fundamental root.
I quite like the tension this creates; none of the intervals are all that dissonant on their own (with the exception of the G# over G) so it never sounds too harsh or tense. But, it still has a lot of anticipation and expectancy in it, waiting for these opposing ideas to finally reach a resolution, which drives the piece forwards.
As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!
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Really outstanding! Is the playback Noteperformer?
Thank you! The playback is actually Dorico's default, using Steinberg's Halion library. It works well for a piece like this since it has dedicated samples for trills, which sound much better than the software generating a trill manually.