Srdjan Berdovic, Carlo Valte, Mariano Aguirre, guitars There is a wisp of a tune--four notes rising stepwise. The opening gets the tune under our skin but also starts to turn it upside down. The heart of the piece is descending music, and almost unbearably sad. I've said elsewhere that …
Srdjan Berdovic, Carlo Valte, Mariano Aguirre, guitars
There is a wisp of a tune--four notes rising stepwise.
The opening gets the tune under our skin but also starts to turn it upside down. The heart of the piece is descending music, and almost unbearably sad.
I've said elsewhere that fauxbourdon is important in David Loeb's music. Here, something like that happens when the music is in descending mode. Descending fauxbourdon is very sad.
The composer is finding musical gold in those descending, expiring lines.
When the modest rising of the opening rising tune returns and we are delivered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtBRO_TsECI