related works

The young girl and the philosopher : for soprano and piano, 1998 / text: Heloïse, Richard Sims

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: sopr pf

Trio no. VI : voor twee violen en piano, 1951 / Henk Badings

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 2vl pf

Brilliant Variations and Fantasy on a Chinese Folk Tune : for violin and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: pf vl

Sonatine : voor viool en piano / Herman Strategier

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

composition

I can see the lines dissolving : for violin and piano, 1994 / Richard Sims

Author(s):
Sims, Richard (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): This is a piece about dissolution of structure. Just as a wax object will gradually lose its defining characteristics under the steady application of heat until only the essence remains so, in this work, the opening elaborate lines is transmuted into the raw material of which it is constructed. One is reminded perhaps of the eternal dichotomy between form and content, the philosophy of Plato or the uncovering by a skilled sculptor of the form implicit in a piece of stone. - Richard Sims