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    The Feather Quartet

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    2018-01-31
    Author
    Vear, Craig
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    Abstract
    The Feather Quartet is a digital score for an improvising quartet. It is inspired by an extract from a Tove Jansson short story The Scolder from her book The Summer Book. In this extract an elderly grandmother is lying down on a quiet beach looking at a tiny piece of down caught in barbs of a plant leaf. She describes in great detail this feather and how it moves with the slight breeze. Her description evokes a sense of beauty in this minute event and draws attention to the profundity of concentrating on such small details. This profound seeking is at the heart of this piece; the musicians are instructed to seek such detail in the score, and the audience are invited into a careful listening experience that acts as a metaphor for the feather caught momentarily in the plant leaf on a deserted beach.
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    Premiere performance of The Feather Quartet by the Ligeti Quartet
    Citation : Vear, C. (2018) The Feather Quartet. Performed by Ligeti Quartet. [De Montfort University, Leicester].
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/15623
    Research Group : Institute of Creative Technologies
    Research Institute : Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2)
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