Performances
Sheet Music
Scores
| Publisher. Info.
|
Justin Saragoza
|
| Copyright
|
|
| Misc. Notes
|
Request license from ASCAP
|
| Purchase
|
Javascript is required for this feature.
|
| |
General Information
| Work Title
|
Koans
|
| Alternative. Title
|
|
| Composer
|
Saragoza, Justin
|
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.
|
Work No.102
|
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
|
IJS 14
|
| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
|
5 sections
|
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
|
1980-84 ca.
|
| Librettist
|
Bible (King James)
|
| Language
|
English
|
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
|
Modern
|
| Piece Style
|
Modern
|
| Instrumentation
|
voice, piano
|
Navigation etc.
Autograph Score. This piece utilizes a 0/0 time signature specifying time that is suspended. It is not free time. Non defined meter (i.e. absence of a time signature) and 0/0 meter are not the same in any manner of performance. Performers should understand the difference. And it is substantial. 0/0 meter is defined, and this definition is a direct result of serial music: 0 thru 11 [mod12]. Suspended time is more a frozen moment in time, of becoming. A 0/0 time signature specifies forward time, backward time, elements becoming and going, stretching, floating. You get the idea. This time signature notation is just a ‘snapshot’ of such potential
