Description
Author
NIBLOCK, James
Format
(Score A3)
Instrumentation
Orchestra
Plantilla
3 [1.2.3/pic] 3 [1.2.Eh] 3 [1.2.bcl] 2 – 4 3 3 1 – T+3perc – Strings
Duration
10' 20"
Pages
34
Year of composition
1960
ISMN
979-069220-318-6
Ref.
100-420PASC
Circle Dance: Allegro con brio Quiet Contra: Andante sostenuto Cotillion: Allegro grazioso
This work, written in 1960, has been performed many times both in America and abroad. The composer says: “In reality the title refers to a style or character of expression, since the movements are not dance movements at all but merely express the character or mood of certain traditional American dances.” This is therefore, in the literal and best sense of the word, “abstract” music; not a reproduction of a country dance or ballroom dance, but an evocation of their spirit, exactly as a Mozart minuet is not to be danced to, but apotheosizes that courtly diversion.
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