TRILLING TRILLS    Op. 35

 

     Composer BETKO Milos

COMPOSITIONS - TRILLING TRILLS

VIEW / LISTEN / BUY

  

 

  

Original Title Trilkovanie trilkov

  

Subtitle the eleventh power of an orchestra

  

Genre modern classical concert music (educational)

  

  

Instrumentation 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons,

  

2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 2 Trombones

  

Timpani, Suspended Cymbal

  

Strings

  

Duration 8 minutes

  

  

Year of Composition 2000

  

Copyright © Milos Betko (SOZA), Bratislava, Slovakia

  

Premiere ONDRAS Libor - Conductor

  

SNOW COLLEGE ORCHESTRA UTAH

  

Smrdaky, Slovakia, 2000

  

 


Program note

     TT is a search for an answer to the question about what the trill is and what does the trilling mean. More precisely asked, what could be still count as a trill and where are the bounds of the trilling? The statement that the trill is an interchanging of two notes perhaps doesn’t put up a strong resistance. However another subquestions are showing up: What is the maximal distance between the notes formed a trill? How many times minimally should they change? How fast? Must they be of the same length, the same articulation, ...?
    TT concerns the connections among the musical form, the phrase and the motif as well, by total cancellation of the lines which determine them. So it enables, that TT appears to be 1-section, 2-section, 4-section, 8-section, 16-section, 32-section, 64-section, 128-section, 256-section, 512-section and 1024-section composition, all at once. To this effect this score will be certainly a tasty dish for an enthusiastic music analyst.
    However, above all by effective rhythm and orchestra gradation built on the easy timpani bone, TT offers a musical adventure for crowds of audience too. This heavy swell of dynamics and expression in the moment of its apogee throws into the audience attention the first “normal” trill in the classical sense of this word. Finally, in the short fade out of the composition, just this trill is getting to be certain pseudo-winner which beats the experimental meanderings of the author, or rather, it beats the symptoms of chance of his resignation even to himself.
     In explanation of the subtitle of the composition I can initiate that it’s about the trilling of trills (both terms in their broad researchely intended meanings), on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled, on which notes other trills are trilled which have just such a little time-space that something like a melody comes into being on them.

 


CLOSE