• Bernhard Gander
  • Trace le trois (2024)
    (Trio for soprano saxophone, accordion and percussion )

  • Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
  • sax/perc/acn
  • 21 min

Programme Note

"Trace le trois" (trio for soprano saxophone, percussion and accordion) is a composition predominantly in triple rhythms.

The odd time signatures or metric units of 53/8, 43/8 and 31/8 are juxtaposed with even-numbered patterns of 52/8, 42/8 and 30/8, with minimal shifts in the pulse centre throughout.

This supposedly complicated construction is broken up by rhythms that are predominantly easy to hear in beats of 3 and 4.