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Joy - a composition for three or more voices or instruments

Davidson, Robert A. (1998) Joy - a composition for three or more voices or instruments.

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Abstract

A musical study of time stretching. The final four bars of J.S. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" are subjected to a process of time stretching. In filmmaking, a common technique used to slow down a section of film is to duplicate each frame several times. Joy uses a similar approach, but with overlapping "frames" of three quavers: the first three quavers are repeated, followed by repetitions of quavers two to four, and so on, moving through the material a quaver at a time. The result is a seamless expansion of the time frame of the original source.

Item Type:Other
Status:Unpublished
Keywords:time stretching; J.S. Bach; experimental music; process music; minimalism; post-minimalism; open form music; appropriation; sampling;
Subjects:410000 The Arts > 410100 Performing Arts > 410101 Music
ID Code:13181
Deposited By:Davidson, Robert A. B.
Deposited On:28 March 2008
Copyright Owner:Copyright 1998 Robert A. Davidson
Additional Information:This entry is a musical score.