Tide purl
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Instrumentation
Cello
1
Viola
1
Violin 1
1
Violin 2
1
Additional Information
Tide purl is the most recent and shortest of Liz Johnson's works for string quartet and the simplest in its concept. Inspired by the play of light on sand as river water flowed onto the beach one evening at Druidstone in Pembrokeshire, the music builds out from and back to the single pitch D, exploring the patterns created by using intervals of a third fanning out from that point. This starting and returning to the same pitch is a musical device she draws on in other compositions on the album, Intricate Web.
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Year
Publisher
Composers Edition
Minutes
5
Recordings
Date published
2017
Date recorded
2016
Performers
Fitzwilliam String Quarte
Record company
Divine Art Records
Title
Intricate Web - Liz Johnson - double album
Venue
St Martins, East Woodhay