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- John Harbison
Fantasia on a Ground: I, II, III, IV, V (1993)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- str orchestra of young players
- 2vn, va, vc, db or 2vn, va, vc
- 4 min 30 s
Programme Note
Composer note:
Fantasia on a Ground is one of a series of my pieces for young performers, most of which were composed for the Music School at Rivers, in Weston, Massachusetts.
It is a combination of law and fantasy. It begins with a scale which ascends, then descends inverted, each tone as long as its scale degree (the first degree gets one beat, the second two, and so forth). Against this "arbitrary" ground, free material is woven, bringing to it elements of mystery, meditation, and unpredictability.
— John Harbison
Fantasia on a Ground is one of a series of my pieces for young performers, most of which were composed for the Music School at Rivers, in Weston, Massachusetts.
It is a combination of law and fantasy. It begins with a scale which ascends, then descends inverted, each tone as long as its scale degree (the first degree gets one beat, the second two, and so forth). Against this "arbitrary" ground, free material is woven, bringing to it elements of mystery, meditation, and unpredictability.
— John Harbison
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Harbison's Fantasia is written for young performers yet with a gravity that grips the listener. Quartet No. 3 is an intense, tightly constructed [work] that opens into interludes of song and hymn recalling Ives. But Hunt and Harbison himself stole the show in the set of songs from various periods of [his] career, all serving to enhance the impressions long made by his music of great intelligence, consummate skill, refined taste and impish humor.
Discography
- LabelMusica Omnia
- Catalogue Number110
- EnsembleLydian String Quartet