SOLO PIANO AND PIECES, an Emulated score study for eleven pianos.
Tal Hadad
- November 9th to 14th 2009
“Musica Ricercata” (interpreted literally as "researched music" or "sought music") is a musical piece for piano written by György Sándor Ligeti in 1953.
Five year later, in 1957, the word "emulator" was coined at IBM, as an optional feature in the IBM 709 to execute legacy IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709.
The Pitch Structure of Musica ricercata is confines to only certain pitch classes in each movement, with each subsequent movement having exactly one more pitch class than the last. The pitches found in each movement are as follows:
Movement I = A, D
Movement II = E#, F#, G
Movement III = C, E, Eb, G
Movement IV = A, Bb, F#, G, G#
Movement V = Ab, B, C#, D, F, G
Movement VI = A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G
Movement VII = Ab, A, Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G
Movement VIII = A, B, C, C#, D, E, F, G, G#
Movement IX = A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, F, F#, G
Movement X = A, A#, B, C#, D, D#, E, F, Gb, G, G#
Movement XI = A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#
"Solo piano and pieces" emulates Ligeti’s concept of pitch structure to eleven grand piano.
The show features photography, sketches and mixed media.
"Musica Ricercata", will be interpreted by Caroline Duris on Friday November 13th at 7.30PM.
