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York St John University Lancaster, David (2012) Velocity - for string quartet. [Composition] Downloaded from: http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/2716/ Research at York St John (RaY) is an institutional repository. It supports the principles of open access by making the research outputs of the University available in digital form. Copyright of the items stored in RaY reside with the authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full text items free of charge, and may download a copy for private study or non-commercial research. For further reuse terms, see licence terms governing individual outputs. Institutional Repository Policy Statement RaY Research at the University of York St John For more information please contact RaY at [email protected] CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by York St John University Institutional Repository

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York St John University

Lancaster, David (2012) Velocity - for string quartet. [Composition]

Downloaded from: http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/2716/

Research at York St John (RaY) is an institutional repository. It supports the principles of open access by making the research outputs of the University available in digital form. Copyright of the items stored in RaY reside with the authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may access full text items free of charge, and may download a copy for private study or non-commercial research. For further reuse terms, see licence terms governing individual outputs. Institutional Repository Policy Statement

RaYResearch at the University of York St John

For more information please contact RaY at [email protected]

CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk

Provided by York St John University Institutional Repository

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Velocity (composed in 2012) is a companion piece to my earlier Vertigo quartet (based on Bernard

Herrmann’s film music). Velocity doesn’t quote directly from Herrmann but does emulate the

‘sighing’ cadential gestures which are a striking characteristic of Herrmann’s score.

The title refers to one of the simple ideas behind the work, namely that closer objects appear to

move more quickly than distant ones, so in the music the fast passages are in the foreground at a

louder dynamic level than the slower passages, to create a dynamic, three-dimensional quality

where surprise and inevitability co-exist.

The opening of Velocity contrasts the fast, loud music in the viola and the soft, sustained sounds of

the others; it establishes D as tonal centre and outlines the minor third as an important structural

unit. Contrasting musical ideas form a steady processional, interrupted at bar 60 by the first

extended loud passage. This template (a montage of slow, soft elements leading to explosive

outburst) is applied in successive cycles. The longest passage of soft music is abruptly interrupted by

the final extended explosion of hocketing monody; the intensity subsequently subsides into a return

of the opening music and loud outbursts become momentary interjections rather than foreground

activity.

For String Quartet

Duration: 10 minutes

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