Sonnet 5 (2002)
for solo cello
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Craig Hultgren, cello
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PROGRAM NOTE
Sonnet 5, for unaccompanied cello, was commissioned by Craig Hultgren in 2002. The work combines material from two similar (but not identical) musical strands — one "sparse" (perceptually slow), and one "dense" (perceptually fast) — separated into multiple segments of varying size and interwoven. This "cross-cutting" technique results in associative repetitions of small-scale musical iterations. At the beginning of the composition, motives are introduced in the "slow" sections and imitated later by the "fast" sections. As the work progresses, and the faster segments of the strand gradually and systematically overtake the slower, the roles reverse: the "fast" segments now introduce new material, and this material is imitated by the "slow."