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Puget Sound Chaconne (2011)
for lute
I've always loved 16th and 17th century lute music and wanted to compose a piece or two for the instrument. Unfortunately,
I know no lutenists, and I've never had any experience with the instrument. I ended up creating a piece for lute anyway, trying
to make it easy, if not entirely comfortable, to play.
Although the textures are mostly sparse and simple, the structural aspects are not. Almost all of the variations differ in structure
from all others: from AA to ABCD, to ABAB, etc. The main theme is first presented as three-part entity, only to be revealed as
a four-part one in the end, after the variations are over. Since the theme does not actually appear in any of the variations — they're
harmonic, not melodic variations — this feature turns the chaconne into a gradual process of hidden transformation.
PDF scores:
– Standard notation
– Lute tablature (created by Roman Turovsky)
Audio:
– MP3