Turn (piano)
Solo piano work by Martin Lohse in 3 parts/movements.
Contents
Free download
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title Turn
Work number W.38
Composition year 2011
Movements 3
Duration 12.5 min
Genre solo work
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation solo piano
Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 17
Free score yes
First performance 14 Mar 2013
- by David Lau Magnussen
- place Pulsar Festival, Studiescenen, Royal Danish Academy of Music
Musical styles and elements melodic, expressive
Turn I
- Composed: 12 Aug 2011
- Duration: 3'30 min
- First performance: 14 Mar 2013 by David Lau Magnussen at Pulsar Festival, Studiescenen, Royal Danish Academy of Music
Turn II
- Composed: 26 Oct 2012
- Duration: 4'30 min
- First performance: 9 June 2013 by David Lau Magnussen at Skt. Povls Church, Korsør, Denmark
Turn III
- Composed: 8 Nov 2012
- Duration: 4'15 min
- First performance: 9 June 2013 by David Lau Magnussen at Skt. Povls Church, Korsør, Denmark
Program note
In English
Turn
Mobile II
for piano solo
Turn is tree small pieces dedicated to the pianist David Lau Magnussen. They are small studies for a piano concerto which all uses the same material called Mobile II, a simple sequence of 3 major thirds which represents all the harmonics in the pieces.
Turn I is fast and virtuous with multiple tempos on top of each others. A lyric theme in the middle of the movement is used in the rest of the work together with the material from the first part. Turn II" is slow with repeating patterns, While Turn III" returns to the expressive mode of the first movement.
The three parts can be performed individually or as a suite.
Mobile
A musical technique where different layers of music in individual tempos, metric and musical style are combined in a simple pattern of chords, which slowly modulate through all the keys in a newer ending sequence, creating a music with no or very few dissonances.
I've developed the technique by combining different musical methods used in older works.
- Use of multiple layers of music, which have been a important part of my music since 2000.
- A simple repeating sequence of chords as the only harmonic material in the piece, which creates a music on the move, in a never ending modulation from the start to the end. Used in works like Haiku (1999), In liquid... (violin and piano) (2003) and Image balancantes (2004).
- A 'rhythm across harmony' principle, where different together sounding motives are played in individual tempos across the rhythm of the chords.
First used in Smoke (2000) and developed as a technique in Liebestraum (Liszt arrangement from 2005), and later used in 8 momenti mobile (2008) before it finally evolved to the technique used in Concerto in tempi from 2010 and forward.
Martin Lohse 2013
In Danish
Turn
Mobile II
for klaver solo
Turn er tre små satser dedikeret til pianisten David Lau Magnussen. De er små studier til en senere klaverkoncert, som alle bruger det samme materiale Mobile II, der er en simpel sekvens af 3 store tertser der udgør al det harmoniske materiale i værkerne.
Turn I er hurtig og virtuos med adskillige tempoer lagt oven på hinanden. Et lyrisk tema i midten af satsen bruges i resten af værket sammen med materialet fra den første del. Turn II er langsom med gentagende mønstre, mens Turn III vender tilbage til det ekspressive udtryk fra den første sats.
Mobile
En teknik hvor forskellige lag af musik i hver deres tempo, metrik og musikalsk stil kombineres i et simpelt mønster af akkorder, som langsomt modulere igennem alle tonearter i en uendelig sekvens, skabende en musik med ingen eller ganske få dissonanser.
Martin Lohse 2013
Performances
All versions of - Turn
Concert hall, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Rosenørns Alle 22, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 18 July 2021
- ... more info
Sognegården, Torvet 4, Hjørring, Denmark
Friday 9 August 2013, 19:30
- ... more info
Skt. Povls Church, Korsør, Denmark
Sunday 9 June 2013, 16:00
- ... more info
List of solo works
- Silenzio (cello) (2003)
- Silenzio (viola) (2003/2010)
- Silenzio (violin) (2003/2010)
- 6 preludes (organ) (2003)
- 6 preludes (accordion) (2003/2013)
- 6 preludes (piano) (2003/2013)
- Intermezzo - B.a.c.h. (piano) (2005)
- Nocturne (piano) (2007)
- Nocturne (oboe, cello and piano) (2007/2009)
- Menuetto (accordion) (2008/2014)
- Cadenza (accordion) (2010/2012)
- Hymn (carillon) (2009)
- Moto immoto (accordion) (2009/2011)
- Passing (accordion) (2011-12)
- Passing (organ) (2011/2012)
- Turn (piano) (2011)
- Silenzio (accordion) (2003/2012)
- Momentum (accordion) (2014)
- Match Girl (accordion) (2015)
- Seasons (accordion) (2015-16)
- Late Spring (accordion) (2016)
- Summer Storm (accordion) (2016)
- Autumn Rain (accordion) (2015)
- Winter's Tale (accordion) (2016)
- Fast Track (organ) (2017)
- The Dying Child (accordion) (1998/2014)
- Three pieces - Prelude, nocturne and serenade (piano) (2017-18)
- Prelude (Three pieces for piano) (2018)
- Nocturne (Three pieces for piano) (2018)
- Serenade (Three pieces for piano) (2017)
- Encircled (accordion) (2018)
- L'eau (guitar) (2019)
- Til Ofelia (piano) (2020)
- Sand drifting (oboe) (2000)
