Capra 2 / Manfred Stahnke.

Format:

• Musical score

Author/Creator:

• Stahnke, Manfred.

Language:

Undetermined

Genre:

• Notated music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 pages) ; A4 - US Letter

Place of Publication:

Paris : BabelScores, 1996.

System Details:

PDF

Notes:

CAPRA a cycle of violinsolo pieces In 1987 I started a series of violinsolo pieces. The first "Capra 1" was inspired by a Nepalesian violinist, a guest in Hamburg Musikhochschule. I was completely fascinated by his play without a score, improvising on fixed speech-like patterns, i suppose. This is what I wanted to reach in my commentary on his music. To talk freely, though conform with self-imposed rules, only partly known to me. My "Capra" series is both full of spontaneity and full of "rules" of many musics from all over the world. In later "Capras" I very often refer to Just Intonation. The title refers to the physicist Fritjof Capra and his book "The Tao of Physics", as well as to the old latin name for the goat. "Gusla" is the balkan violin. On the soundfiles, "Capra 1" is played by Barbara Lueneburg,

Publisher Number:

979-0-2325-3724-5

Access Restriction:

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