[Smt-talk] accellerandi-pieces

[Deborah Burton]

What about "Carmen" and every gypsy-inspired piece ever written?

Deborah Burton
School of Music
Boston University
burtond at bu.edu


Olli Väisälä wrote:
> The most magnificent example that comes to my mind is Sibelius's Fifth 
> Symphony, first movement, from about half-way to the end. The movement 
> also consists interesting small-scale written-out accelerandi (between 
> D and F, and between J and K in the score). Sibelius's Seventh 
> Symphony also has a similar large-scale process (between G and L).
>
> Another interesting example that pops into mind is the finale in 
> Lutoslawski's Livre, which culminates in a passage in which a 
> percussion attack (frusta, I think) articulates textural passages of 
> decreasing length. Gradually these attacks become closer to the center 
> of attention and articulate a series of chords that further accelerates.
>
> Olli Väisälä
> Sibelius Academy
> ovaisala at siba.fi
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>
>> i am lookink for pieces with large-scaled accellerandi, either 
>> incremental (as in carmens 'danse boheme') or stepless, either via 
>> tempo-modification or via rhythm-change.
>>
>> thanks a lot for help.
>>
>> johannes quint
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