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Moth Sketches

for chamber ensemble
chamber ensemble
Edition: Performance material

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Moth Sketches began as a piece that was to score a short animated movie about a moth. Although my musical ideas eventually parted company with the movie and my work became a standalone piece, I did find using the movie as a starting point to be interesting for a number of reasons. For one, the initial sense of the pacing of ideas came from an outside impetus, which is otherwise never the case in my music. I also found myself defining my ideas as characters in ways I would not normally do.

 

The piece is constructed as a very basic formal shape that involves several layers of related yet distinct material. The piece’s form is defined by the mutation of the materials in layers. There is a rotation of musical characters throughout the ensemble that takes place over the piece’s span and allows a dramaturgy to unfold. As I rotate material, I imagine I am braiding a rope involving many strands of differing colors. When one fiber comes in contact with another, both fibers’ colors are altered, so that the rope’s essential character is constantly in flux as the braid continues.

– Hannah Lash

Orchestral Cast

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More Information

Title:
Moth Sketches
for chamber ensemble
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2013
Duration:
13 ′
World Premiere:
October 3, 2013 · New Haven, CT (USA)
Yale School of Music


Technical Details

Product number:
LSHM 50321
Delivery rights:
Worldwide

Performances

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  • Moth Sketches
    2017 Aspen Music Festival
    Conductor: Stephen Burns
    Orchestra: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
    August 12, 2017 | Aspen, CO (United States of America) , Harris Concert Hall
  • Moth Sketches
    October 3, 2013 | New Haven, CT (United States of America) , Yale School of Music — World Premiere
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