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FULL SCORE / ALBUM / STREAM: DODECAPHONIC PRELUDE & FUGUE III composed by Marek PASIECZNY I. PRELUDE 0:00 II. FUGUE 1:31 The Structure 4:12 I. Prelude 4:33 II. Fugue 6:04 ◾ sound engineers: Daniela Rippel-Markiewicz, Marcin Pękala & Wiktor Szymański ◾ video footage & video equipment by Mikołaj Szenfeld ◾ video & audio editing, post-production by Marek Pasieczny ◾ Mateusz Kowalski plays on ’Sara’ (2020) by Philip Woodfield strings: Augustine Paragon Blue // ◾ Marek Pasieczny plays on ’Mehliana’ op. 377 by Philip Woodfield strings: D’Addario EJ46FF (trebles) & D’Addario LCN-3B Lightly Polished (basses) Special thanks to Mikołaj Szenfeld, Adrian Biernacki & Very Special thanks to The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw (Poland) ------------------ composer’s notes ◾ Dodecaphonic Prelude and Fugue ◾ came spontaneously into being in July ‘20 towards the end of the global lockdown brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a compositional challenge I posed for myself to create a piece based entirely on mathematical structures shaped by the twelve-tone technique (also known as ‘dodecaphony’). It is a technique which I have not used in over 15 years. For me, dodecaphony, being totally free of the gravity of a tonal language, is at once liberating but with an element of ‘soullessness’ to it. One loses the sense of a ‘tonic’ base and the harmonic and melodic gravitation it holds. Yet – using a familiar and ‘tonal’ form of the prelude and fugue, the human ear can find (or perhaps wants to find) the base, the tonic and familiar tonal triads to gravitate towards. The experience has been truly liberating and, at the same time, surprising for me. The piece is based strictly on a planned structure (the written-out structure is attached to the main score) and was written simultaneously in two versions: for solo piano and solo guitar. Later on I also made a version for three guitars (2022). This is the newest version for guitar duo (2023). Marek Pasieczny Leeds, The UK (August 12th, 2020 / June 3rd, 2023)
