12 Variations in S-Mode (Armstrong, Peter McKenzie)
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General Information
| Work Title | 12 Variations in S-Mode |
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| Composer | Armstrong, Peter McKenzie |
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| Key | Synthetic mode on C |
| Movements/Sections | 15 short sections:
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| Year/Date of Composition | 1971 |
| Dedication | Ellen |
| Average Duration | 3 minutes |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | Piano solo |
Misc. Comments
COMPOSITION NOTES
This student work, written at Yale in 1971 for Alexander Goehr's seminar, was
my first experiment with synthetic modes. I built a heptatonic scale having two
augmented 2nds, keyboard symmetry, and a leading tone at the "wrong" end.
Respelled here for convenience:
- C C# D# E G G# A (C) .
I decided to use as well, separately or in combination, its pentatonic compliment,
- A# B D F Gb .
Variations offered a likely compositional way to proceed, and Beethoven's 32
in C-Minor, which I was playing at the time, inspired a dare to make my theme
short.
