Exercise In Delirium (2020)
Instrumentation: Strings
Approx. Running Time: 10:00
A generally angsty work which I composed rather quickly, over the course of a few days in September 2020. For the first time in my life I’ve been drawn more to narrative music (especially that of Berlioz); something I sort of actively avoided when I was younger. Generally, I’ve always thought music has enough merit to exist regardless of any story or tale, but with this piece, I allowed myself a little narrative while I was composing. A person, their infatuation, unrequited love, awkwardness, glances, rejection, promise, strangeness, ultimate rejection…etc.. Color wise – pinks, reds, blacks and whites. Thats really as far as I got.
Musically that comes out to a controlled amount of dissonance with overbearing consonance, soft of a balancing act between the two.
Purchasing the full set of parts and score yields you the following: 8x Violin II, 7x Violin II, 5x Viola, 5x Cello, 4x Contrabass, 1x Score (10″ by 13″)