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Show Tunes in Samarian Starlight. For trumpet and fixed media. 2012.

by Paul Dolden

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Commissioned and performed by Lukas Gothszalk (Poland).

The work plays freely with our historical imagination, specifically, our ability to imagine another time and culture. At the same time, this imagining is always conditioned by our own time.

We know the microtonal scales used by many ancient cultures. However we have no idea of how they were used or what the music sounded like. This work appropriates a number of ancient scales to create a musical fantasy of "show tunes" and "nightclub music" for ancient times.

The work is based on the same melodies recreated in different tuning systems. These fluctuate between two musical moods-plaintive and calm, like a ballad and energized, like a rock, swing, or Latin groove. Similarly, the structure of the work fluctuates between the microtonality of an imagined past and our modern tuning system.

The work is included in the “Golden Dolden Box Set” available under the “merchandise” tab. This box set includes all my music, scores , essays, and educational talks from 1984 to 2021.

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released March 5, 2023

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Paul Dolden Val Morin, Québec

For 40 years I have been mixing hundreds of recorded musical parts , with each track being recorded one at a time. I write the score before I go in my studio. Works are solo studio compositions or commissions for live soloist(s) and tape. I develop my own tuning systems and use multiple tempos at the same time. The first 20 years I produced dissonant dense textures. Since 2000 more melodic. ... more

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