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

Quattro movimenti : for violin and piano, 1992 / Jurriaan Andriessen

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

Sonatine : voor viool en piano, 1948 / Sas Bunge

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

Andante : for violin and piano / Sem Dresden

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