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I Love Beauty Truth Wisdom is a “miniature” and was first conceived for solo piano for the inaugural concert of the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble. The concept behind the “miniature” is a piece that uses no more than 100 notes and wastes no gestures or ideas. The motto of the ensemble is, simply: “life is short, get to the point.”
Though there is a great deal of freedom in how to interpret the idea of 100 “notes”, my approach was to consider the note as a pitch, regardless of octave displacement or instrumental doubling. Thus, when put through the following classical numerological table, the phrase I Love Beauty Truth Wisdom comes to equal 100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
I=9
Love = 18 (3+6+4+5)
Beauty = 20 (2+5+1+3+2+7)
Truth = 24 (2+9+3+2+8)
Wisdom = 29 (5+9+1+4+6+4)
My piece, structured in five movements, is intended as one flowing narrative, held together by lingering sound. The individual movements reflect their namesake in both mood and sum, containing the prescribed number of pitches corresponding to the schemata above. Thus, at the conclusion of the piece, exactly 100 notes will have sounded (the ten pitches of Beauty each have a corresponding harmonic).
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