Music Appreciation 3e Kamien
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939)

Concerto Grosso (Mvt. 1)

Instrumentation: flute, oboes (2), bassoon, French horns (2), harpsichord, strings

CD 3, Tracks 46-47, Duration 2:45

46) Orchestra presents a single tone in unison, repeated three times.
:18 Violins, vigorous phrase, short-short-long rhythm, sustained tone in bass.

:27 Vigorous phrase repeated softly.

47) Musical quotation from Handel (strings and harpsichord).

:21 Vigorous phrase developed in woodwinds and strings; crescendo; short string phrases with abrupt pauses.
:41 Handel quotation continued in oboe, supportd by harpsichord and strings.
:57 Vigorous phrase in violins,
1:07 Imitated in flute.
1:11 Vigorous phrase in violins.
1:16 Handel quotation continued; trills in strings and woodwinds; harpsichord.
1:29 Vigorous phrase in violins, flute, and oboes; crescendo to
1:33 Woodwinds, high sustained dissonant chords; low strings, fragments of vigorous string phrase. Ends on sustained dissonant chord.

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