Work Information
Kevin Volans : String Quartet No 4 "The Ramanujan Notebooks"
| Work Notes |
dedication: Elizabeth Chatwin |
Publisher |
Chester Music Ltd |
| Category |
Works for 2-6 Players |
Year Composed |
1990 |
| Duration |
26 Minutes |
Orchestration |
String Quartet |
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| Full Score(s): |
CH61341 |
Full Score(s): |
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| Set(s) of Parts: |
CH61342 |
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Programme Note
The first movement is a reworking of material I wrote for Shobana Jeyasingh’s dance opera Correspondences, a full length work based on the life and work of the Indian mathematician S. Ramanujan (1887-1920). The commission was extremely unusual insofar as, in Baratha Natyam, the foot-patterns and rhythms of the dancers were worked out first by Shobana. I then wrote music to match these. In the quartet I have remodelled some of the rhythms to make them more fluid. The first movement is in 2 parts.
The second movement was written in 1994 and is derived largely from my orchestral piece One Hundred Frames. The piece is dedicated to Elizabeth Chatwin.
Kevin Volans
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