Passing (organ)

Versions

<pdf page=3 >http://martinlohse.com/wpscores/passing_i_organ.pdf</pdf> Work for solo organ by Martin Lohse
This work is recomposed in 3 versions.

Work	Year
Passing (accordion)	2011-12
Passing (guitar duo)	2014/2015
Passing (organ)	2011/2012

Score

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Recording

<mp3 text='Passing I' >http://martinlohse.com/wpsound/Passing%20Cx.mp3</mp3> Studio-recording of the version for accordion by Bjarke Mogensen recorded at the Royal Danish Academy of Music

Info

Composer Martin Lohse
Title Passing

Composition year 2012

Movements 1
Duration 4.25 min min"min" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.25.

Genre solo work
Number of instruments 1
Instrumentation solo organ

Score notation computer (Sibelius)
Pages 13
Free score yes

First performance 27 Sep 2011

by Bjarke Mogensen

place Louisiana Live - Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana - Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Musical styles and elements modal, melodic, minimalistic

Program note

English

Moto immoto
for organ

Passing is a small virtuous piece composed for accordion in 2011 and dedicated to Bjarke Mogensen. This version for organ was written in 2012.
Quickly repeating notes, small motives and fast patterns, with both hands in the same register, all in a simple sequence of 3 major thirds which represents all the harmonics in the piece.
The piece counts in 5/4 with music in 9/16, 7/32, 5/32, 6/16, 6/8, 15/32, 12/32, 4/8 and ends with an outro in 3/8, 2/8 & 3/16.

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.

1. Use of multiple layers of music, which have been a important part of my music since 2000.
2. 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).
3. 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 2012

Danish

Passing
for orgel

Passing er et lille virtuost stykke skrevet i 2011 og dedikeret til Bjarke Mogensen. Denne version for orgel blev skrevet i 2012.
Hurtige gentagende noder, små motiver og hurtige mønstrer med begge hænder i det samme registre, alt i en simpel sekvens af 3 store tertser som udgør hele harmonikken i værket.
Værket er i 5/4 med musik i 9/16, 7/32, 5/32, 6/16, 6/8, 15/32, 12/32, 4/8 og ender med en outro i 3/8, 2/8 & 3/16.

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 2012

Performances

All versions of - Passing

Solo Recital - Claudio Jacomucci
Museo Novecento, P.zza S. Maria Novella 10, Firence, Italy
Thursday 11 July 2019, 21:00

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Solo Recital - Claudio Jacomucci
Kammermusiksaal, Campus Essen-Werden, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen, Germany
Friday 30 November 2018

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Solo Recital - Hanzhi Wang
Carnegie Hall, New York, United States
Monday 22 October 2018

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Solo Recital - Claudio Jacomucci
Theater am Rand Betriebs GmbH, Zollbrücke 16, Oderaue, Germany
Saturday 13 October 2018, 19:00

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Solo Recital - Claudio Jacomucci
"Werkstatt", Hagenstraße 34, Gelsenkirchen-Buer, Germany
Sunday 30 September 2018, 19:30

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Expert reviews

Accordions Worldwide April 2018 ... external link

... Fresh music, contemporary but not excessively "intellectual" and not at all hermetic, indeed sincere and communicative, often captivating, which show strong roots with the great Western "classical" tradition; a happy combination, just like in Scarlatti, of lightness and playfulness with passion and solemnity.
... Music that surely reconciles the audience with contemporary "cultured" music and that undoubtedly enrichs the specific repertoire for the accordion.
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29 March 2018 - Alessandro Mugnoz

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)
• Encore (accordion) (2024)
• The Breeze (piano) (2024)
• Sand drifting (oboe) (2000)