Invocation #3
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vlazville Music (self-published via ArrangeMe)
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About this piece
Invocation #3 is a meditative piece for unaccompanied cello, dated January 1998, which Katrina Wreede also published in a version for viola. Her store note calls it a 'contemplative, occasionally emotionally intense meditation' and says it was used in Women in Black performances with Thais Mazur's dancers and the vocal ensemble KITKA. The score's own directions trace its arc: it opens 'asking the question', passes through 'church-like' chords and passages marked 'urgently' and 'crying out', and ends with 'the same question, again'.
Technical overview
Mostly slow and free, with frequent metre changes (4/1, 2/1, 3/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4) and many expressive directions. The opening sets a melody over a held open-G pedal; later passages use three-note chords and double stops, a short treble-clef passage up to E-flat5, natural harmonics, short trills, and three sul ponticello passages of fast measured arpeggios across all four strings.
Technical focus
- Double Stops
- String Crossings
- Meter Changes
- Treble Clef
- Harmonics
- Extended Techniques
- Rubato
- Dynamics
- Hairpin Dynamics