Combinatorial Ars Sonata No.5
Title / Title: Sonata Ars Combinatoria No. 5
Composer / Composer: Leo Brouwer
Format / format: for guitar / for guitar
Year / Year: 2012-2013
Edicion Actual / Current edition: 2019
ISBN: 978-959-7192-74-9
Indications page / Indications page: Yes / Yes
Pages / Pages: 22
Catalog No. / Catalog No.: 3E.62
Difficulty / Difficult: Advanced / Advanced
Note / Note: The 2016 Facsimile Edition is print on demand (spiral bound)
The Facsimile 2016 Edition is printed on demand (spiral binding)
Listen here / Listen here
I. Toccata by Andrey Lebedev
II. Fantasy that counteracts the harp by Ricardo Gallén
III. Finale by Ricardo Gallén
Dedicated to / Dedicated to
Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and dedicated to Julian Bream.
The Sonata Ars Combinatoria No. 5 was premiered by me at St John's Smith Square in Dec 2014 under the auspices of the Julian Bream Trust in the presence of the composer
About the work | About the work
Not only mathematics enjoys the privilege of the most unusual combinations; the arts -all- take advantage of this multiplicity of spaces, equations, sounds or even the planning of entire cities, calendars, paintings or musical works.
Bach -among others- goes to combinations that go beyond interval relationships until reaching integral forms. The Fibonacci series appears in the Mass in B minor, while in the Art of the Fugue it expands to the contrapuntal treatment. In the Goldberg Variations and in the Musical Offering the structure takes forms of mind-boggling solidity and inventiveness.
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Not only mathematics are enjoying the privilege of the most astonishing combinations, arts, architecture get advantage of this multiplicity: spaces, equations, sounds, paintings or music -of course-.
Bach -among others- are usings combinations and intervalic relations besides periodical structures based on Fibonacci (the Golden section). Bach Mass in B minor, The Art of Fugue or The musical Offering. Almost the entire work of Bartok is build on the Golden section (intervals, periods, and the macro-structure in itself).
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