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Density
for horn and piano
Duration: ca. 10'30"
This piece is built around the concept of "musical density"�the amount and variety of pitches within a certain span of time�and with increasing and decreasing this density either on a small or large scale. After a languid, sultry opening in which the density of the horn line gradually increases�a large scale shift�a melody is heard on the horn alone that is based on gradually augmented intervals from a central pitch�an increase in musical density on a small scale. As this melody is developed, it gradually becomes faster, affecting a change in musical density, as well as spawning certain scalar and arpeggiated motives. These new materials come to the fore in a maniacal fast section, but the gradually augmented intervals of the main melody are always close by. After this madness breaks down, only an echo of the original melody is left to fade away into the distance.