Expanding Mottos
Tayloe Harding
About this work:
Expanding Mottos (1990) is a 12 minute work for solo piano that features several small and related pieces of melodic material (the mottos). These mottos are stated, then lengthened and juxtaposed with one another to form both the whole of the work's content and its structure. There are four mottos each made-up of largely-continuous eighth-note patterns, though each features different intervalic relationships, contours, and articulations, and are of different lengths. Though the mottos appear first all in the same or closely related key-centers (C, G, D), each undergoes transpositions to other centers. These transpositions, though not systematically arranged, do act with the expansions and juxtapositions in outlining the various formal sections of the work.
Year composed: 1990
Duration: 00:12:40
Ensemble type: Keyboard:Piano
Instrumentation: ,1 Piano soloist(s)