Cretic Variations
for Piano
by James Matheson
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Piano Solo
Ensembles
Chamber Music
Publishers
Theodore Presser Company
Formats
Solo Part
Performance Score
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Physical
Musical Forms
Variations
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Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.110418010

For Piano. Composed by James Matheson. Sws. Premiered at Cal Poly Pomona. Contemporary. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed April 27 2013. 20 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #110-41801. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.110418010).

ISBN 9781598065268. UPC: 680160616770. 9x12 inches.

Commissioned by pianist Nadia Shpachenko, Cretic Variations is a virtuosic fantasy on the simple rhythmic motif of long-short-long, known in poetry as a “cretic foot.” James Matheson (whose last name is itself a cretic foot) writes that the motivic alternation of long-short-long is enormously versatile and can be alternately thunderous or playful, melancholy or spirited. Matheson builds the variations into music that is extremely difficult to play, treading the line between the possible and the impossible, in which the drama of seeing and hearing extraordinary performers accomplish incredible feats plays an important role. For advanced pianists.