Spirali

Year(s) of composition: 1987-88

Year(s) of revision: 2013-2017

Scored for:

String quartet projected into space

Duration: 22’ ca.

Commissioned by:

Società del Quartetto di Milano for its 125° celebration (1985)

First performances:

Milan, Sala Verdi of Conservatorio, «Società del Quartetto», 18th of April 1989: Giovane Quartetto Italiano, Marco Stroppa (sound projection)

Edition number: Full score 134954

Annotation:

The full score dates: «Mondeville, 26.XII.1988» Computer Music Design: Serge Lemouton, IRCAM. 2013-2017 revision concerns the new and not yet published text of Spirali with electronic part

Related Materials

Excerpts from the score:

First page of edition Download
Excerpts from the Cd-booklet: § Stradivarius, STR 57008, Milano 2008 Download

Other musical materials:

Introductory and performative notes Download
Schematical abstract of main topics about Spirali Download
Analytical notes and transparencies about Vertical Pitch Structure (VPS) patterns and VPS connexion and spatial projection of sound Download
Analytical notes about Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 132, III movement Download
1997 Formal scheme of Spirali Download