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Prolepsis I for solo alto saxophone
Duration: 4 minutes
Score
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(performed by Chris Anderson)
By definition, a prolepsis is "the representation of a thing as existing before it
actually does or did so, as in 'If you tell the cops, you're a dead man!'" In the
field of rhetoric, it is "the anticipation and answering of possible objections in
rhetorical speech." In the first half of Prolepsis I for unaccompanied alto saxophone,
musical ideas are likewise anticipated, foreshadowed, and interrupted by other
musical events. These various ideas come into conflict with one another, each vying for
musical space. In the second half of the piece, something of a synthesis occurs, but it
is a synthesis against the will of the individual ideas, the result being an internal struggle
that never truly reaches an acceptance of synthesis. Prolespsis I is now in its third version,
the other two being for solo bassoon and for solo Bb clarinet.
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