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The Persistence of Memory
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355824-3
12 May 1998
Price: Available on request
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for ensemble Forces or CategoryEnsembleDuration15 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to DifficultOrchestrationfl (+picc), cl (+bcl), hn (+anvil), 2 perc (vib, BD, tam, sus cym, high temp blk, anvil, 4 crotales, steel tubes, 3 bows), hp, prep pn, 2 vln, vla, vc, db (OUP has computer discs with steel tube sounds sampled if
required)Programme NotesThis piece has its origins in two diverse sources: the painting by Dali from which the title is derived, and a strange memory from my visit to India five years ago.
Whilst staying in a small town near Bangalore, I became ill and had to remain in bed for several days. During the nights, one could hear the hour struck independently from several directions in seemingly random polyrhythms. I came to believe that the sound was made by workers who sat on the rooftops of factories nightly, telling the town what the time was by banging on slates and pieces of metal. In my delirious, half-waking state, it often seemed that time had atrophied, or even changed direction;
frequently it seemed that four o'clock in the morning had come before two, and these weird temporal disturbances became absorbed and gathered into my dreams and fantasies.
These ideas affect the piece in more or less direct ways. Tempi are sometimes at odds with other rhythms in the music, pulses appear and disappear, and near the end a single chord buckles and distorts under the strain as its constituent notes are forced out of tune.
© Richard Causton, 1995
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Richard Causton (b.1971) Richard Causton was born in London and studied at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Scuola Civica in Milan. He has worked with world renowned performers such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, London Sinfonietta, and the Nash Ensemble. He has been the recipient of several awards, including First Prize in the International 'Nuove Sincronie competition, the Mendelssohn Scholarship and a 2004 British Composer Award in the Best Instrumental Work category for Seven States of Rain. He was founder of the Royal College of Music Gamelan Programme and held the
Fellow Commonership in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge.Richard Causton's website
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