composer
Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1969, he has been teaching at universities in Malaysia since 2010. As both a composer ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
voc pf
Children's Corner : for two harps / Claude Debussy; arranged by Eef van Breen, edited by Eva Tebbe
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2hp
Sonantia : quatre pièces pour deux harpes, 1984 / Nico Hermans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2hp
Kleine suite : voor twaalf harpen, 1951 / Lex van Delden en Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
12hp
composition
...valse oubliée... : for three-octave wire-strung harp or harp / Ross James Carey
Description:
...valse oubliée... refers in its title to the series of Liszt’s four piano pieces with the same name. In translation ‘forgotten waltz’ ...valse oubliée... explores memory and the way music can jog both individual and collective memories. In this case, the waltz-like fragments heard in the work create a mood of wistful longing. Given that the wire-strung harp is unable to be re-tuned during performance, the piece is written in an unequally spaced scale (G-Ab-BC#-D-Eb-F) that in its unique construction enables various tonalities to be explored in the course of the work.