Soe
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 2001
- Duration
- 9'
- Publisher
- Composer (self-published)
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About this piece
Soe (2001) is a nine-minute piece for unaccompanied cello named after one of the Maenads, the wild female followers of Bacchus in Greek myth. In his program note Schimmel explains that its three themes are built from chords that combine stacked fifths with stacked major thirds, set against a rhythmic row that runs through every four-note pattern of long and short notes; this strict plan is meant as a frame for an emotional, turbulent piece. It opens with hammered four-note chords marked Allegro feroce, and a later quasi-cadenza passage is built on sustained double stops and left-hand pizzicato. Nathan Leyland gave the premiere in Durham, North Carolina, in November 2003, and the piece won the 2007 Iowa Composers Forum Student Composition Competition.
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