Fractals by Elizabeth Alexander Bassoon - Sheet Music
By Elizabeth Alexander
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Fractals
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Bassoon, Piano - Advanced
SKU: SF.SEA-044-00
Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Instrumental, Bassoon. Five imaginative fantasies inspired by whimsical fractals. Classical, 20th Century. Score and Part. Duration 10 minutes. Seafarer Press #SEA-044-00. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-044-00).8.5 x 11 inches.
Fractals are intricate pictures which bear an uncanny resemblance to many images found in nature — coastlines, clouds, cells, lightning bolts, clusters of stars. But for all their complexity, fractals are generated using simple and concise recipes, often simple computer programs no more than 4-5 lines long. Like visual fractals, these five whimsical miniatures are based on very simple ideas which grow in complexity as the ideas are layered and spun out.
Each movement is based on a different fractal created by Benoit Mandelbrot, from the delicate "Cirri" and spunky "Tremas and Squigs," to the quirky "Twindragon," described by American Record Guide as a "toetapping, finger-snapping, brainier and more complex interpretation of ‘Cool’ from Bernstein’s ‘West Side Story...’"
Movements:
1. Cirri
2. Devil’s Staircase
3. Twindragon
4. River Tree
5. Tremas and Squigs.
- I. Cirri
- II. Devil's Staircase
- III. Twindragon
- IV. River Tree
- V. Tremas and Squigs
