Reflection
Op. 31a
by Oliver Knussen
Small Ensemble - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Piano Accompaniment
Violin Solo
Ensembles
Small Ensemble
Genres
20th Century
Composers
Oliver Knussen
Publishers
Faber Music
Series
Faber Edition
Formats
Score and Parts
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
Violin; Piano

SKU: AP.12-0571520561

Op. 31a. Composed by Oliver Knussen. Solo; Solo Small Ensembles; String - Violin and Piano. Faber Edition. 20th Century. Score and Part(s). Faber Music #12-0571520561. Published by Faber Music (AP.12-0571520561).

ISBN 9780571520565. English.

This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano---Oliver Knussen's penultimate work---is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion; a six-note mode reflected in its complement; and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too; the work's opus number (31a) demonstrates a relationship to Knussen's unfinished Cleveland Pictures: The main melody began as a response to Gauguin's painting of a Breton woman swimming, Knussen wrote, and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.