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Kaija Saariaho - Petals - Coggle Diagram
Kaija Saariaho - Petals
Context
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Petals
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Nympheas means 'flower' in French, so Petals is an appropriate name for this
Sonority
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- close miccing of instrument
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- unconventionally played instruments
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Structure
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- Type A: fragile colouristic passages
- Type B: more energetic events with clear rhythmic and melodic character
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Texture
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- stave 1-3 cello moves from F to G but richer sonic palette created by change in timbre, trills, increased bow noise, reverb and detuning via harmoniser
- stave 4-7 more straightforward
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- section 3 and 5 include held note against notes in the other part (section 3 is D) (section 5 is high G# as artificial harmonic)
- stave 23-27 use pedal articulated by pizzicato
- stave 20-22 sustained bass note
Tonality
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- stave 17-27 has a repeated low C and high F#
- use of diads for resolution at the end of sections (D/A stave 9, C-A# stave 16 and C-B end)
Harmony
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pitch material was created by spectral analysis, so harmonics are heard as melodic entities
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Melody
in B sections, melodic ideas are developed
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dense melodic ideas packed into chromatic, scale-like phrases
ideas taken from cello part of Nympheas,
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pizz low C, maj 7th leap up to B-A#, semitone tril then ends on high F#
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same idea beginning on pizz C repeats 5 times, played tremolando
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RMT
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stave 10-13: agitated, sycopation within septuplets/quintuplets
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