NISHIMURA, Akira西村 朗(1953.9.8-2023.9.7)

DANCE FOR EIGHT HANDS,for Two Pianos for Eight Hands(1987)

八手のための舞曲

Instrumentation
pf(2)
Duration
5’00”
Category
Duet
Commissioned by
Calorosa
Premiere
1987. Tokyo. Calorosa
Description
Composed in 1987. This work is a small dance music for two pianos eight hands (four players). The rhythmic construction is modeled on a Tala of the Southern Indian ancient music,however,the scale has a character of the Southeast Asian mode,and therefore,the music is giving rise to a small garnelan ensernblelike,because of its combinative functions of a delicate movement of the ornaments which are often protruded from a line of unison giving a certain heterophonic effect and a colour of the scale.

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