Christian Wolff
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Exercise 15 |
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Order Reference: |
EWR 0409 |
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Medium: |
CD |
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Composer |
Christian Wolff |
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Performer: |
POST NO BILLS: Chris
Weinheimer, bass flute; Ole Schmidt, bass clarinet; Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba;
Robert Schleisiek, piano; Tom Lorenz, vibraphone |
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"Exercise 15" was
made out of and invites transformations or transcriptions. It's for piano or ad hoc instrumental
arrangement. Its material is from a 1920s song
"Union Maid" (as I found it in Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer's
collection "Songs of Work and Protest") by Woodie Guthrie using an
earlier popular song tune. The tempo of the music is not
specified. Sometimes it's played rather fast, as
the original tune probably was, sometimes at a deliberate, 'prosaic'
tempo. Here it's in a slow motion as though
under a temporal microscope, which to my ears makes it somehow new (extensive
change of quantity bringing about a change of quality)". Christian Wolff |
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