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Modulations through time (2019)

Stephen Emmerson, Bernard Lanskey
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This article explores the rationale behind a performance given by the authors at the Unfolding the Process symposium held in Oslo in November 2015. For this occasion, the authors devised a new version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations that builds upon Emmerson’s arrangement of the work for two pianos in 2012. A shortened version of the work (c.30 minutes) was designed that aimed nonetheless to maintain the original work’s sense of structural balance and coherence. This version involved the transposition of a number of variations into different keys to explore the possibility of adding a satisfying tonal structure to our experience of the work, in a context where both performers see potential communicative value in 'playing with' dimensions of original masterworks with a view to giving fresh perspective to the listener experience. The article is written from the alternating perspectives of the authors; one of which is primarily concerned with the rationale and process of devising the arrangement while the other reflects upon the performative aspects and implications arising from it.
typeresearch exposition
date11/11/2018
published07/11/2019
last modified07/11/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightStephen Emmerson and Bernard Lanskey
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/530427/530428
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.530427
published inNorwegian Academy of Music
portal issue3. Unfolding the process


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