{"id":3731,"date":"2013-04-01T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2013-04-19T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:52:20","slug":"common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/projects\/2013\/common-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common Ground employs three different repetitive techniques.  The first third of the piece is a cycle of chords of expanding and contracting length, with the violin and cello trading agitated little lines.  The second is a pastoral obsession over essentially one chord: light changing over a field.  Here, the cello leads, and the violin and piano offer insect-like interruptions.  After a metronomic interlude and a free-form interlude, the piano begins stating a ground bass \u2013 a repetitive line around which the harmonies constantly shift.  This sort of thing pops up in Purcell, where I first encountered it as a choirboy.  The piece ends with a hyperactive recapitulation and is approximately 9 minutes long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Ground employs three different repetitive techniques. The first third of the piece is a cycle of chords of expanding and contracting length, with the violin and cello trading agitated little lines. The second is a pastoral obsession over essentially one chord: light changing over a field. Here, the cello leads, and the violin and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}