{"id":116,"date":"2007-05-17T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T04:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/duet-no-1-chorale-pointing-downwards\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T04:50:03","slug":"duet-no-1-chorale-pointing-downwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2007\/duet-no-1-chorale-pointing-downwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Duet N<sup>o<\/sup> 1: Chorale Pointing Downwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Duet N<sup>o<\/sup>1: Chorale Pointing Downwards<\/em> is the first in a series of short string pieces that serve as harmonic and technical studies for both composer and performers.  <em>Duet N<sup>o<\/sup> 1<\/em> is constructed around a cycle of fourteen chords repeated almost without stopping throughout the work.  However, the cycle is subject to several simple rhythmic processes and two cryptic interruptions and, by the middle, assumes a sort of fervent perpetual-motion perseverance.  Here, I attempted to convey a kind of harmonic rapture with technical reserve (music that sounds like a string exercise).  The piece ends slowly and quietly, with a series of ascending and descending scales trailing the fourteen chords behind them.  <em>Duet N<sup>o<\/sup> 1<\/em> is dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadiasirota.com\">Nadia Sirota<\/a> with great thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Duet N<sup>o<\/sup>1: Chorale Pointing Downwards<\/em> is the first in a series of short string pieces that serve as harmonic and technical studies for both composer and performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}