| Crescive Variations | |
| for violin and piano | |
| Year: 2010 | |
| Duration: 13' | |
| First Performance: 13 February 2010 St. Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY | |
| Jessica Mathaes, violin; Collette Valentine, piano | |
| Instrumentation: violin, piano | |
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Program Notes The word "crescive" means "growing." The work begins with a somewhat meditative prelude, with the solo violin attempting to "find itself" before being joined by the piano, which then accompanies it via a series of rather solemn sounding chords. The piece progresses from there, growing in intensity through a series of metric modulations (although "tempo modulations" is perhaps the more appropriate term) and a gradual delineation of the piano part, which moves from its original, more "vertical" chordal accompaniment to one of greater contrapuntal complexity.
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