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1649027

Enigmatic Dance Suite Digital Sheet Music

Enigmatic Dance Suiteby Stanley M Hoffman Vibraphone Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Artist Stanley M Hoffman
Score Type
PDF, Included with PASS
Composer Stanley M Hoffman
Format Digital Sheet Music
Pages 8
Arrangement Vibraphone Solo
Publisher stanleymhoffman.com
Level 5
Product ID 1649027
Genre Classical 21st Century
Instruments Vibraphone

Product Description

I have long wanted to compose music using Olivier Messiaens "modes of limited transposition. I recently completed a brief dance piece for classical guitar where I first succeed in doing so with limited use of the modes. I figuratively stretched my legs as a composer with that piece, paving the way for my using the modes much more extensively in my next project.

Composed for The Vibraphone Projects call for scores, Enigmatic Dance Suite picks up where that piece leaves off, employing seven of those modes. The result is a work with intentionally vague tonality in which shifting tone centers form its basis. To increase the sense of vagueness, the two main tone centers are a tritone away from one another (C-Gb).

The forms, tempos, and rhythms in this suite are mostly traditional: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, and Gigue, with the latter movement being in the more atypical form of a Rondo. The first three movements are fairly serious in mood, whereas the final movement is rather lighthearted. The Gigue also sounds more tonal than the preceding three movements, especially in the C section of the A-B-A-C-A form. The fourth movement also features percussive sounds to emphasize that this is a dance suite, and to impart an additional sense of levity in the finale. A cheeky aspect of the music notation is that I use flats and naturals in movements IIII; sharps appear in movement IV to emphasize the more tonal basis of the music.

This composition is intended for performance by advanced performers. I hope you enjoy Enigmatic Dance Suite!

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