Year of Composition

2005

Duration

10'

Instrumentation

Two violins

Categories

Chamber Music

Movements

I. Spinning
II. Knotted
III. Open Weave
IV. Tapestry

Other Versions

Version for two flutes
Version for violin and viola

Program Note

Jack Larsen’s fabric designs are the inspiration for Woven. The work applies the principle of interwoven strands of colored thread to interwoven musical lines. Texture, color and design are the governing elements. In Spinning the motion of the loom becomes the rhythm, while the two intertwining lines exchange musical phrases, spinning around each other. Knotted focuses on both lines in close proximity, "rubbing" against one another in dissonant clusters. Open Weave explores the opposite extreme, with the lines separated and spaced wide apart. Tapestry combines disparate elements, such as transparent and opaque, smooth and prickly, pale and bright, coarse and fine, elastic and brittle.

— Victoria Bond

Audio/Video

Purchase Sheet Music

Performance Score (Theodore Presser)

Commercial Recordings

Victoria Bond: Peculiar Plants (Albany Records)

Commission & Premiere Info

Premiered at the LongHouse Preserve in East Hampton, NY on August 6, 2005