componist

Carey, Ross James

Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1969, he has been teaching at universities in Malaysia since 2010. As both a composer ...

gerelateerde werken

Nine Poems from "Meeting the Comet" : for countertenor or mezzo-soprano and piano / Ross James Carey; poems by Fleur Adcock

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en piano
Bezetting: voc pf

Danses Pythiques : pour harpe, 1992 / Enrique Raxach

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Harp
Bezetting: hp

Children's Corner : for two harps / Claude Debussy; arranged by Eef van Breen, edited by Eva Tebbe

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Harp
Bezetting: 2hp

Transparency : for harp and tape, 1984 / Takayuki Rai

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Harp; Elektronica met verschillende instrumenten
Bezetting: hp tape

compositie

...valse oubliée... : for three-octave wire-strung harp or harp / Ross James Carey

Toelichting:
...valse oubliée... refers in its title to the series of Liszt’s four piano pieces with the same name. In translation ‘forgotten waltz’ ...valse oubliée... explores memory and the way music can jog both individual and collective memories. In this case, the waltz-like fragments heard in the work create a mood of wistful longing. Given that the wire-strung harp is unable to be re-tuned during performance, the piece is written in an unequally spaced scale (G-Ab-BC#-D-Eb-F) that in its unique construction enables various tonalities to be explored in the course of the work.