SEE ALSO

RELATED RECORDINGS:
A Brighton Serenade on Sonora Productions

CATEGORIES:
Orchestral

Arioso No. 2 for String Orchestra

(1967)

Music by Philip Glass

CAST:
voice, vln, accordian, percussion

COMMISSION:
The Pittsburgh Public Schools by the Ford Fundation

NOTES:
Glass's earlier pieces were meditative, steady-state pieces that established a mood and stayed there. The Arioso is a study in the elongation and subsequent contraction of a simple musical line. As in other Glass's early music it is agressively reductive in its form, melodic content and harmonic language.

PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers