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territories unknown

trio for bassoon, viola and piano

Marc Yeats

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Composer Marc Yeats
Year of Composition 2020
Duration 15'50"
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Catalogue ID ce-my1tu1

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A timecode-supported polytemporal trio for bassoon, viola and piano.

Dedicated to Lauryna Sableviciute.

Duration: 15.50

There is no programmatic intention in what unfolds as sound in this trio: any or no relationship to the title and the sounding music is forged at the discretion of the composer and listener. Despite this statement, there is an unfolding of material that manifests through contrasting sections of music to hopefully provide the listener with a compelling listening experience even without programmatic intent. It is the interplay between and within these sections that is the narrative content of the composition. The title is taken from a poem of my own from a set of 27 poems written in November 2005.

The poem is shown in full here:

We travel on each other’s love
Strange, wild adventures
Territories unknown
Sometimes
Lost
Blind alleys
Or mazes
Bewilder
Searching always
For home

The material for territories unknown stems originally from self-borrowed and transformed materials found in pneuma (March 2020), a piece for solo contrabass recorder that was subsequently transformed in the solo piano piece Conrad’s Toye (April 2020), composed immediately before nearly all my poems are letters to you (May 2020) for solo harp. It is the transformed materials from pneuma and nearly all my poems are letters to you that are found here, particularly in the piano writing that along with materials from pulviscular observations (2019) for double string quartet, in the viola part and material self-borrowed from observation 1.7.5 (2015), a trio for alto flute, bassoon and violin, in the bassoon part, which comprise the content of the piece.

The material that runs through all the compositions stemming from pneuma comprises of rhythmic units built primarily from four quavers in a 4/8 bar simultaneously overlaying seven quavers in the same 4/8 bar illustrating the polymetric ratio between the two of 7:4. In other transformed materials, this ratio is expressed in bars of 7/8 where the 7:4 tuplet has become seven quavers in a 7/8 bar and the pulses previously signifying four quavers in the 4/8 bar are equivalent to four groups of seven semidemiquavers, differentiated by changes in dynamic or tessitura from the seven groups of four semidemiquavers that constitute the quavers in the 7/8 bar.

It is this polymetric relationship that helps connects all these pieces, making them part of the same material family.