Title
Frames and Gestures
Year
1970
Instrumentation
Quintet for string quartet, pno, & electronic sounds
Notes
Commissioned by Paul Masson Winery. In the 18th century, when chamber music was born, the scale of the musical structures, and indeed the architectural ones in which they were performed, were in keeping with one's apprehension of the known world. But in the age of the atom and of outer space, the "chamber" has radically changed, and the music should in turn, reflect its new home.