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The Creation: Advanced Tour

Article Index The Creation: Advanced Tour Page 2 Page 3 Page 3 of 3 Here's the entire excerpt from the beginning through the 5th day (first third of the projected work): Notice that the blues happens through the confluence of the E# in m. 115, and the E from opening recalled in the cello part. The E-B fifth of the opening is never displaced in the exerpt. It simply crunches in a bluesey fashion with the material that evolves under and around it. The potent aggregate in the vocal part of the 4th day is trumped in day 5 by a kind of virtuosic arpeggiation over all the structural elements of the piece to that point. [I think of these as partition boundaries in a dramatic, climactic counterpoint that touches on all the structual pillars in the piece.] I know of nothing like this ruse--the meek F completing the first aggregate of the piece, and the strong F completing the resurgent aggregate in m. 115. Lorenzo Ghiberti's famous Bronze doors show the gradual disappearance of God. Brickle's first 5 days show music evolving as God creates, day by day. In the process Brickle redeems the 20th Century, showing how its discoveries can be potent particuarly if we loosen our grip on them. Those forces may withdraw, and then rear their heads powerfully at just the right moment. We have yet to see how the rest of his Creation pans out. I hope he can match the brilliance of the first 3rd of the piece!   << Prev - Next

 

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