Transparencies (2004)
for solo piano
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Ashlee Mack, piano
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Transparencies, for solo piano, was commissioned by pianist Lynn Raley as a companion piece to Charles Wuorinen’s The Haroun Piano Book. The work, lasting approximately three minutes, comprises multiple motivic iterations unfolding simultaneously on three hierarchical time-scales. Small-scale intervallic relationships, projected isomorphically in the domains of both pitch and rhythm, are further evidenced in the forms of broader phrase groups and, ultimately, in the large-scale framework that informs the entire composition. A recording, by pianist Ashlee Mack, is available on the SCI “Mosaic” compact disc (Parma Records, 2010).