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The Golden CanonFor Woodwind Quintet (1984)
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LOOK- The Golden Canon was
composed for the Solaris wind quintet in
residence at the University of Akron, Ohio in
November of 1984. The work consists of a one
minute introductory movement featuring a simple
canonic theme followed by a six minute Canon. The
Canon is 144 bars long with a climax at bar 89
(the golden mean) at which point the canonic theme
from the introductory movement reappears.
Throughout the Canon the tempo (72mm), meter
(3/4), tonality (Bb), harmonic rhythm, fundamental
progression (I - IV), and instrumentation (all
five players continuously playing) remain
constant. What changes is everything else:
texture, rhythm, register, range, melody,
chromaticism, incidental harmony, counterpoint,
all undergo a gradual and continuous canonic
transformation from the simplicity of a single
tone to the complexity of sound mass and back. For
all of its apparent formalism the Golden Canon was
intuitively conceived and stands as an intimate
paradigm of the composers style.
Resanovic's "The
Golden Canon" is now available on CD. The work is
one of several American quintets featured on the
Solaris American Quintets CD released by Capstone Records CPS-8677