The love song (2019)
Instrumentation: violin and viola
Duration: 12’
Based on the poem: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) by T. S. Eliot
Written for and premiered by Aperture duo, Linnea Powell and Adrianne Pope in March 2019
Premiered at UCLA, California.
The Love Song is an instrumental piece in 7-movement, based on the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) by T. S. Eliot. The poem functions as a central figure of the narrativity of the piece, a sonic experience through rhythm, white noise, and dynamic of the visual. The performer is expected to infer the tempo and music expressions from excerpts used along the piece, this is an approach to the conventional notation in a way to connect the poem with the interpreter. The musical structure embodies the expressive content of the poem that arises from a narrative conception; it is the functional link between narration and perception that provides a symbolical dimension to the music. I quoted Marin Maris’ Couplets de folies, articulating a range of white noise and distorted sound over the original, as a metaphor of the epigraph of Dante’s quotation in The Love Song. The phonetic extracted from some verses of the poemare reflected in the piece by the subtlest music inflections.
Note: the third movement is not performed.
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