Daydream
Score title
Daydream
Composer
Akira Nishimura
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Daydream for Piano
This work is made up from a fundamental tone row and a compound tone row. The fundamental row consists of six tones of Eb-F-Bb-C-A-F: and functions as a theme. The compound row is an extended line that includes three transformations of the theme variously transposed and changed.
The compound row continuously produces a flow of sounds like a river in the void. The flow keeps a certain color tone and appears as an acoustic screen that is a sort of spiritual zone. In the spiritual zone a daydream arises and various illusional visions that include memory of previous life and prevision of after life emerge beyond space-time. This piece is a fantasy aiming at a musical expression of the visions. At a performance, the surrealistic visions should be eloquently realized exploiting the potentiality of the piano.
Akira NISHIMURA
This work is made up from a fundamental tone row and a compound tone row. The fundamental row consists of six tones of Eb-F-Bb-C-A-F: and functions as a theme. The compound row is an extended line that includes three transformations of the theme variously transposed and changed.
The compound row continuously produces a flow of sounds like a river in the void. The flow keeps a certain color tone and appears as an acoustic screen that is a sort of spiritual zone. In the spiritual zone a daydream arises and various illusional visions that include memory of previous life and prevision of after life emerge beyond space-time. This piece is a fantasy aiming at a musical expression of the visions. At a performance, the surrealistic visions should be eloquently realized exploiting the potentiality of the piano.
Akira NISHIMURA