Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments

by Gavin Gamboa

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	1.	I 03:57
	2.	II 01:50
	3.	III 01:15
	4.	IV 02:22
	5.	V 01:12
	6.	VI 01:06
	7.	VII 00:58
	8.	VIII 00:36
	9.	IX 01:36
	10.	X 00:41
	11.	XI 01:01
	12.	XII 00:43
	13.	XIII 01:48
	14.	XIV 01:19
	15.	XV 01:35
	16.	XVI 01:55
	17.	XVII 02:04
	18.	XVIII 02:17
	19.	XIX 01:01
	20.	XX 00:59
	21.	XXI 01:14
	22.	XXII 00:51
	23.	XXIII 01:17
	24.	XXIV 02:28
	25.	XXV 01:18
	26.	XXVI 00:50
	27.	XXVII 00:48
	28.	XXVIII 02:22

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Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments was written after Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 of 1899. Borrowing only loosely associative structural elements while adhering to a similar trajectory inherent in Schoenberg's formal design and idiomatic part-writing, Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments is an original, one-movement work differentiated by its lack of literary source material, an emphasis on texture, and its tonal language as exemplified by the use of discursive harmonic pathways. (Roman numerals are used to designate sections, rather than distinct movements).

The aim was to replicate a mood, to capture the totalizing and evocative atmosphere which Schoenberg's piece instantiated, and to re-envision the gestures of an era now fading into distant historical memory. Sextet exists as an echo, as an anachronism; it does not follow late-20th or early-21st century definitions of 'avant-garde'. A quote from Theodor Adorno puts it forth critically:

"The new musical material, emptied of its sense, is transformed into deadening stimuli by its endless repetition. Scarcely felt is the obligation of achieving that uniqueness of the work, that unrepeatableness enjoined on musical composition by the emancipation of music from all pre-established form."

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released November 1, 2011

Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments, Opus 1 (2008-2010)
dedicated to Ali Helnwein
photography by Ben Olsen

Performed by
Alyssa Park … violin i
Joel Pargman … violin ii
Rob Brophy … viola i
Jerome Gordon … viola ii
Tim Loo … cello i
Paula Hochhalter … cello ii

Recorded at
901 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, California, United States
19 July 2011

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