Kevin Germain - Tintinnabuli Etude 3

     My review:

    Tintinnabuli Etude 3 by Kevin Germain, is a piece characterized for being modal.

    It is built from a melody that is repeated, exchanging hands, like a canon, accompanied by unfolded arpeggios, played by the opposite hand to the one that is playing the melody.

    In the first section, both the melody and the accompaniment appear in Aeolian mode. In a second section, characterized by the fact that the melody is presented doubled to the octave, it is done in Mixolydian mode, which will be the one it preserves until the end, while the accompaniment is done in Dorian mode and, in the last two measures, in Aeolian mode.

    This bimodal combination makes the end of the piece have a peculiar and unexpected character, as if both the melody and the accompaniment were floating in the air. Furthermore, the continued use of the pedal gives the entire piece interesting resonances, combined with the fact that the composer specifies that the accompaniments should be played in p, while the melodies in mf.

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    Let's listen to Tintinnabuli Etude 3, by Kevin Germain, performed by Carlos Marín Trigo: