Sekar Suling (2009)
Sundanese gamelan degung (eight musicians); ca. 4 min.
The composer writes: I composed this work for Toronto's Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan. It's a showpiece for the suling (an Indonesian bamboo flute) with Sundanese gamelan. For this piece, I have added a sixth sorog note to the five-note pelog scale, and occasionally make brief use of a seventh note in the suling part only.
While there are some references to Sundanese musical style, in its formal structure this is a thoroughly Western composition. As well, the placement of the suling “front and centre” as a soloist is a divergence from the instrument’s ornamental role in traditional Sundanese music.
The embellishments in the suling “cadenza” were improvised by the suling soloist Andrew Timar.
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The composer writes: I composed this work for Toronto's Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan. It's a showpiece for the suling (an Indonesian bamboo flute) with Sundanese gamelan. For this piece, I have added a sixth sorog note to the five-note pelog scale, and occasionally make brief use of a seventh note in the suling part only.
While there are some references to Sundanese musical style, in its formal structure this is a thoroughly Western composition. As well, the placement of the suling “front and centre” as a soloist is a divergence from the instrument’s ornamental role in traditional Sundanese music.
The embellishments in the suling “cadenza” were improvised by the suling soloist Andrew Timar.
LISTEN ...
Score and parts available from:
