for mixed ensemble of baroque and modern instruments
à jamais 1 is a recomposition of Rameau’s ‘Tendre Amour’ from Les Indes galantes. I describe it as a recomposition rather
than an orchestration because it has essentially been wrien such that the expressions of the music sound as products of
the physical realities of the instruments.
à jamais 1 was originally intended for the desk drawer, a kind of preparatory exercise before writing what would become
à jamais 2, but in the end I decided to keep the work since it seemed to me to demand a fundamentally different expression
to Rameau’s ‘Tendre Amour’.
à jamais 1 is wrien for a mixed ensemble of baroque and modern instruments, tuned respectively to A415 and 440 Hz.
is encourages a number of notational games which are essentially restricted to the score and, therefore, the performers.
Refer to my 3 Dreams for further examination of these possibilities.
Instrumentation:
*Flute
*Violin
Violin
Soprano
Clarinet
*Viola
Cello
*Bassoon
* indicates a historical instrument tuned to A415Hz