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Gillock, William : Fog at Sea

Work Overview

Music ID : 17879
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:Various works
Total Playing Time:1 min 10 sec
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Kumamoto, Ryohei

Last Updated: March 4, 2025
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Form

It is a sectional form.

  • A [a (measures 1-8) + b (measures 9-16)]
  • A1 [a (measures 17-24) + b1 (measures 25-28)]
  • Coda (measures 29-38)

Instructions, likely representing the title's "fog," such as "soft pedal throughout" and "As softly as possible," are found at the beginning.

The theme is constructed using the whole-tone scale. The first four measures of the theme resemble a cluster and lack harmonic function. However, in the subsequent measures, by forming a whole-tone scale, it is revealed that the opening cluster was based on the whole-tone scale.

Rather than tonality, the work evokes nuances of light and shadow and a sense of color, similar to what is found in Debussy's compositions.

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