Chimeric Fantasy (score)

Instrumentation: alto saxophone, cello, and piano

Composed: 1993

Duration: ca. 9 min.

Score: 21 pp.

Parts: 11 pp.

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Chimeric Fantasy

From the Classical period through the Romantic, the fantasy has increasingly relied less on an exclusively musical logic and more on composers' insights into human psychology. Freed from the constraints imposed by the expectations of classical forms, composers have introduced into these pieces unexpected juxtapositions of seemingly unrelated materials, often appearing in apparently unprovoked and unmotivated sequences. My Chimeric Fantasy contributes an additional element distinctly twentieth-century in origin, that of illusion: things are not always what they seem to be, and whatever one hears at one moment may unpredictably become something altogether different a moment later. The music may seem to progress willfully, even perversely at times. It is not so much the nature of the materials themselves but rather their bizarre treatment that one will notice. Because it is not intentionally Gothic, the character of this piece probably cannot be appreciated by a Western listener unable to place it in the context of the Western tradition. Ironically, it might more likely provide pleasure to a non-Western listener who is unacquainted with that tradition.

Chimeric Fantasy was composed in 1993 and first performed at The University of Massachusetts during a regional meeting of The Society of Composers on October 7, 1995, by Lynn Klock, Eric Roth and Nikki Stoia.

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