Danse Energique
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1986
- Duration
- 3'50''
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished; CMC print, call no. MI 3213 E84dan)
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About this piece
Danse Energique is a rondo of just under four minutes for cello and piano that Jean Ethridge wrote in 1986 and revised in 2011. The Canadian Music Centre holds the unpublished score (15 pp.) and cello part. Cellist Martin Bonham and pianist Toshiko Tampo premiered it on 22 May 1987 at the University of Victoria. The CMC's programme note describes it as playful, with sul ponticello, non-vibrato playing, pizzicato notes and chords, and many changes of time signature, including a passage where the cello is in 9/8 while the piano is in 7/8. In its early performances it followed Ethridge's Prelude and Cantillation.
Technical overview
The Canadian Music Centre rates it Advanced (RCM Grade 9). Its programme note lists sul ponticello, non-vibrato playing, pizzicato notes and chords, and frequent meter changes, including the cello in 9/8 against the piano in 7/8.