Vertiginous Lines
Reynold Tharp
About this work:
Vertiginous Lines was conceived as a long and slowly unfolding melody based on modes of my own devising whose supple contours (the almost calligraphic “lines” of the title) are spun out through flexible and propulsive rhythms into flamboyant and improvisatory arabesques. The increasingly virtuosic lines are twice interrupted by an emphatic fragment of imaginary folk music (marked “raw” in the score) before eventually disappearing into dizzying heights. Vertiginous Lines was originally commissioned for the 2006 Irving M. Klein International String Competition, and revised in 2007.
Year composed: 2007
Duration: 00:05:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard:Violin
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