Travelogue, Part I "In Transit"
This is the first movement of a piano work entitled Travelogue, which will consist of at least three movements. The title refers to the fact that I started writing this while driving through Nebraska last weekend, but the music ended up fitting itself to the title – I fancy that the gently-rolling rhythms and out-of-sync repeated melodies adequately depict the experience of interstate driving. Call it Nancarrow-lite.
I had some more fun with notation: Sibelius isn’t very good at notating polymetric music, so I compromised by delineating phrases with dotted slurs, and I decided to use lots of key signature changes instead of accidentals.*
Listen to an MP3:
A PDF of the score is here.
*This might have a been a mistake – avoiding key signature changes would be more readable, but I like the looks of multiple key signatures. An alternate score, without any key signatures, is here.
