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Drive is a systematic investigation into the harmonic possibilities of the following six note row: E flat : A : C : B : E : D
This row reveals a set of non-repeating intervals - tritone, minor third, semitone, fourth, wholetone. Each pitch being drawn from the letters in the last name of the Swiss patron and conductor Paul Sacher, who commissioned and supported the work of many leading composers of the twentieth century. In the first 27 bars of Drive, Boulez structures the chords of the piano part from different permutations of the intervals of this row. Each is built around the Eb with the intervals shifted along one - the second chord starts with a 3rd, third chord with a semitone, fourth with a 4th. A sixth interval is created from the original row by returning to the Eb:
Chord 1
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Chord 2
Chord 3
Chord 4
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At bar 27 new inversions of the opening chord sequences are presented in a linear fashion to produce a simple crotchet based melody embellished with grace notes taken from the melodies past or future direction.
Drive: bars 27 - 32
This method of merging chords or melodic lines is used to great effect at bar 41 where each instrument plays through a closely related series of falling pitches based on overlapping layers of the opening chords. The contrasting rhythmic strands creates a vibrant heterophony which softens to leave a brief duet between flute and piano before returning to static trills underpinned by the harmonies of chords 3 and 6 in bar 45 and chord 1 in bar 46.
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Drive: bars 41 - 46 All audio examples are provided with kind permission by Nimbus Records: CD NI5167 London Sinfonietta/George Benjamin
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introduction : intro.to Drive : a guide to Drive : harmony : texture : tempo : influences : words : definitions boulez : composing : workshops : support : contact
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