Repexus II
for String Quartet

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Commissioned by ACME and the Berkshire Bach Festival, and premiered by ACME (Yuki Numata and Annaliesa Place - violins, Nadia Sirota - viola, Clarice Jensen - 'cello) on August 13, 2011

Notes

Repexus II is a recasting of a work originally composed for 12 saxophones in the fall of 2007. The title is a Latin word which means “combed out” or untangled, and the piece traces various sorts of untangling and re-arranging – of melodic and harmonic materials as well as instrumental identities. Solo lines and small ensembles are lost in or subsumed by dense tutti chords or contrapuntal complexes, which are in turn separated out into their component parts to reveal new relationships and roles.