Ore Osse Oculo

for clarinet, marimba, piano, violin and cello solo

Basic information

Composer Kosciow, Alexander
Duration 9 min.
Year of composition 2004
First performance (year) 2004
First performance (venue) Palace on the Water, The Royal Łazienki Park, Warsaw, Poland
First performance (performers) Mikołaj Pałosz - vc, Kwartludium +
Submitter Kwartludium +
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Thematic tags
Conductor No
Soloist(s) cello,

Instruments

Musicians 1st player 2nd player
Violin1
Cello1
Clarinet 1
B-flat
Musicians Instruments
Percussion 1
Marimba
Keyboard 1
Piano
Other instruments and playing techniques
Equipment
Sound electronics
Visuals

Notes

Programme notes

The piece Ore Osse Oculo was commissioned by a Polish contemporary
ensemble named Kwartludium on the occasion of an international
symposium on environment's natural resources, where its first
performance was given. The three of natural elements are the point of
reference both for a musical metier of the piece and, in some way, for
the title, which refers to the environment through the metaphore of
senses of a living organism. The initial motive can be treated as a
yarn free melodic and harmonic figures are woven around, to be
aleatoric in mechanics and mostly impressionistic in the mood. The
musical material of the piece differs to the coda and two chord
sequences in piano part. Here, the musical material is based upon a
system resembling a major-minor tonality, which acts for a opposition
to complete an apparent improvisative character of the former part of
the piece.

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