Miniature for Violin and Tape

by Sally Reid, composer, ASCAP

Program Notes:

The Miniature for Violin and Tape (1984) is one of six studies for soloist and digitally generated tape. (The others are for alto saxophone, trumpet in C, English horn, piano and oboe.) The romantic solo line appears against an electronic background which is based on motives characteristic of the individual electronic instruments. The electronic motives articulate the more flowing solo lines of the violin.

The work was realized on the pre-MIDI, micro-computer based alphaSyntauri system, an eight-bit, multi-timbral system which utilized the sixteen digital oscillators of the Mountain Computer cards designed for use in Apple II microcomputers. The score was generated using a crude (by today's standards) first generation computer notation system which permitted graphic representation of taped events resembling traditional music notation, but in which time is only represented spatially.

Audio:

• Miniature for Violin and Tape (Richard Wright, soloist)
• Miniature for Violin and Tape (1984, tape only)

Selected Performance History:

• November, 1992 - Performance of Miniature for Violin and Tape by Lin Ooi at Abilene Christian University during American Music Week.
• March, 1992 - Performance of Miniature for Violin and Tape by Lin Ooi on the annual Abilene Composers Concert sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae Chapter at Hardin-Simmons University.
• 1986 - performance of Miniature for Violin and Tape by Richard Wright at ACU.
• April, 1984 - Premiére performance of Miniature for Violin and Tape by Celeste Myall at McMurry College.

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Miniature for Violin and Tape