HISTORICISM
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Music: Meditation 4 |
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This piece requires an organ, and not an electric one. It sounds best with pipes. I have no specific suggestions for registration. What I'm trying to achieve is an atmosphere where the level of volume is not constant, but grows over time - slightly at (B), a lot at (C) - with appropriate relaxation of these volume levels during bridge sections and at violin entrances. By about measure 61 the relationship between violin and organ should be trying to overpower the other. Then from its peak at 69 or so, the energy should gradually dissipate down to virtually nothing at the end. It's not the notes, but the ambience that will make this meditation work. Done right it is highly effective. The premier was played by Van Knauss and myself at the Seventh-day Advenitst church in Frederick, MD, in 1998 - one year after the wonderful organ in the Frederick church was installed. That's still the sound I hear, or want to hear, when I think of this piece. - Piano, violin - Violin |