violin solo
Duration: c. 10'
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notes
The impetus behind Veneziana is the combination of early and contemporary music techniques – two areas of expertise of
its dedicatee, Jubal Fulks. Specifically, the Renaissance practice of diminution (filling in the rhythmic space between long tones with freely-improvised melodic figures) is voiced here in harmonics, quarter tones,
and wide intervallic embellishments. As these melodic diminutions accumulate, further structural and timbral
interpolations occur, giving way to a broader exploration of the boundaries between elaboration and obfuscation, and
the balance between primary and subsidiary material.
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