In her concertos, Musgrave often gives players metrical freedom and allows different lines to pursue different tempi simultaneously, coordinated by cue-points.
Instruments
The Horn Concerto features instrumental innovations, including a piano 'prepared' with screws, a programme-book, and a metal bar on its strings, and a harp 'prepared' by threading a strip of paper through its strings.
Compositional Technique
Musgrave developed 'space music,' where soloists move around the orchestra to associate their music with different ensembles, applying this principle to concertante writing.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Thea Musgrave aimed to explore 'dramatic-abstract musical forms,' meaning a dramatic presentation without programmatic content, extending the concerto principle.
Composer Biography
Thea Musgrave, a Scottish-born composer, studied at Edinburgh University and then spent four years in Paris as a pupil of the renowned Nadia Boulanger.
Performer Biography
Gervase de Peyer, the distinguished clarinettist, is the dedicatee of Musgrave's Clarinet Concerto and gave its first performance.
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