SIX MEDITATIONS & RESPONSES after Britten

As the title shows, this piece alludes and is in homage to Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo oboe by Benjamin Britten. Each of the three Meditations are composed forms that complement each of the three Responses. These are reworked transcriptions of improvisations that are (what I call) outside the form improvisations. They use the premise of each of the six Britten pieces that juxtaposes two interacting and competing harmonic centres that eventually resolve and amalgamate with different types of character. I performed and recorded three improvisations outside the form of Pan, making two of each, and chose one from each that I felt had clear form, autonomy of character, and harmonic coherence. I transcribed them as starting points to rework into composed forms. Stylistically the Meditations serve as short, composed preludes that are serene and controlled in contrast to the Responses that are spontaneous and impetuous.
 
There are two performance models:
1: Meditation I – Response I – Meditation II – Response II – Meditation III – Response III
2: Depending on context and programming a performance could have either the three Meditations or three Responses as stand-alone sequences.

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