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Amanda Cole - Hydra III

from Between the Keys by Ensemble Offspring

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Hydra is a three-movement clarini duet exploring pentatonic subsets of Ancient Greek scales found in Kriag Grady’s ‘centaur’ just-intonation scale. Two of these scales are the Olympos’ pentatonic & Archytas’ enharmonic scales, which are used in Partch’s piece Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales.
In Ancient Greek mythology, The Hydra of Lerna was a serpent-like water beast with multiple heads. In this piece, the clarinis act as individual parts of the one creature that interact with each other in different ways.
In Hydra, all four clarinis are used in different pairs for each movement and are tuned to separate modes (C major, C minor, C phrygian and C lydian). Not all notes of the centaur scale or Ancient Greek modes used in the piece are available on each instrument. This means that the notes of a melody or phrase often have to be shared between two instruments using the technique of hocket.

The melodic material in Hydra is made from variations of a bell ringing pattern, which consists of four notes that are permutated to create an eight bar pattern. In the first movement, the pattern is harmonised to form counterpoint. The second movement is more of a chase where an embellished monophonic version of the pattern is shared between the two players. In the third movement, a drone is placed under the pattern to form an accompaniment. (AC)

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from Between the Keys, released January 1, 2013

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Ensemble Offspring Sydney, Australia

Ensemble Offspring are Australia’s leading new music group. Uniting the country’s most fearless instrumentalists under the leadership of internationally acclaimed percussionist Claire Edwardes, they subvert classical music traditions and deliver concerts that "burst with imagination, energy and inspiration” (Seesaw Magazine). ... more

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