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2022-02-08 07:38:03
Karl Fiorini In the Midst of Things - piano and chamber music; Charlene Farrugia, Dmitri Ashkenazy, Rebecca Raimondi Stefan Kropfitsch; Grand Piano Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 February 2022 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A retrospective of piano and chamber music by Karl Fiorini, Maltese by birth, European by instinctIn the Midst of Things, on the Grand Piano label, is a retrospective of piano and chamber music from the last 20 years by composer Karl Fiorini, featuring his Trio Lamina for clarinet, violin and piano, Two piano etudes, Piano Trio, Piano Sonata and In the Midst of Things for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, performed by Charlene Farrugia (piano), Dmitri Ashkenazy (clarinet), Rebecca Raimondi (violin) and Stefan Kropfitsch (cello). Maltese by birth, Karl Fiorini studied in Malta with Charles Camillieri and Joseph Vella, and in London with Diana Burrell and Michael Zev Gordon. He founded the Valletta International Spring Festival in 2007, […]
2020-02-25 03:41:00
Today just happens to mark the 13th anniversary of this blog. (I'm a teenager!) And 13 just happens to be a Fibonacci number! So what better way to mark this occasion (and finish up this little blog series) than with a bit of Fibonacci fun?In my last two posts, I talked about encounters I had with the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence while preparing to lead some musical sessions as part of a broader academic day focused on those topics. I've already written about looking for the Golden Ratio in Beethoven and about writing a little vocal warm-up using Fibonacci numbers.The latter is based on a simple diatonic pattern in which the primary notes of a scale (the "white notes" in C Major) are used as stepping tones for scalar ascents of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8. Naturally, I was also interested in exploring larger numbers in the series, […]
2020-02-23 00:49:00
In our last episode, I recounted some experiences thinking about the interaction of Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci Sequence with music. I focused in that post on the question of finding a mathematically "golden moment" in a work like Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, but for the teaching task that inspired all of this, I never even got around to Beethoven. (My students will get to hear me talk about the Golden Ratio in the Beethoven later in the semester.)On the special "Golden Ratio day in question, I was more focused on providing some direct musical encounters with the ratio that students could feel for themselves. We actually first experimented with seating the students in Fibonacci rows as follows:X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X […]
2020-02-07 20:06:00
Searching for gold
[…] This actually fits well with the binary form origins of early Classical sonata forms (and the fact that some of these sonatas have repeats for both Exposition and for Development/Recap). In this formulation, the Exposition is a basic structure which is then expanded on in a longer (perhaps 62% longer!) second section. See this table of Mozart piano sonatas. The idea would be that one presents ideas and then expands them by golden means. A Fibonacci Sequence, pairs from which can be used to approximate the Golden Ratio, represents just this sort of expansion as each number is greater than the previous by a distance of the previous previous number: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc. A movement with a first section of 55 measures and a following section of 89 measures would, by definition, end up with golden proportions.Note that my discussions […]
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