Name: A Pocket Book Of Dances by Peter Yarde Martin
Duration: 3 min 37 s
Description: London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Stuart Stratford. Commissioned for a KS2 BrightSparks Education Concert, May 2014.

London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Stuart Stratford. Commissioned for a KS2 BrightSparks Education Concert, May 2014.

A Pocket Book Of Dances

This piece was performed by the fabulous Mivos Quartet at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NYC. 

Western ears are very sensitive to certain formulaic chord progressions commonly used at the ends of phrases in tonal music (cadences). In my piece, Many Many Cadences, I stretch the listeners’ perception of cadences by recontextualizing these predictable chord progressions in very fast cells that are constantly changing key and register. These lonely, disjunct ends-of-phrases eventually congeal and transform into new kinds of phrases and sound objects.

Many Many Cadences

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Played by Grand Band at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, as part of the Peter Reynolds Composer Studio.

Grand Band: Vicky Chow, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore and Isabelle O'Connell. https://www.grandbandnyc.com/

A Pocket Book Of Dances

Peter Yarde Martin

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