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A native of New York City, Allen Brings received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Queens College and a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, where he was a Mosenthal Fellow and a student of Otto Luening, and a doctorate in theory and composition from Boston University, where he was …
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Water Tropes
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Instrumentation: String quartet, throat singer, tape (2009)
Duration: 12-30 minutes (indeterminate)
18 pages
Website: www.naftalischindler.com
Duration: 12-30 minutes (indeterminate)
18 pages
Website: www.naftalischindler.com
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This piece is inspired by the idea of troping environmental sounds explored by Ingram Marshall in several pieces. The idea is to trope, or ovelay, the environmental sound with musical responses. In Water Tropes I use the string quartet, throat singing (singing more than one pitch at a time), to imitate and respond to the percussive bubbliness, and the trills of the water sounds. Over time, the musical response gains independence, forcing the water sounds to trope the music. Eventually, the music loses cohesion and start returning to water, creating an overall "from the water and back to the water" theme for the piece.
