Inner Dialogue by Barbara Heller Cello - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: S9.Q785945

Barbara Heller composed Inner Dialogue with a tonal material consisting of several series of intervals that are put together like a dialog. The composer focuses on upward and downward movements. Barbara Heller writes about this: I was particularly emotionally attached to one series of intervals, which can be found at the beginning of the 2nd part (Lento) and the 5th part (Calmo): major sixth, minor second, fourth, major second and tritone. This falling sixth triggered in me the attempt to come back up again with a rising fourth after the semitone step downwards, and then back down again with the whole tone and the tritone – this resulted in an expression that did not let go of me and touched me deeply inside. It was like a trap that I couldn't get out of. And so, in the course of working on the cello piece, it became an inner dialog: with the back and forth downwards and upwards again, a kind of variation-like music that was always - with small changes - a self-questioning, an attempt to free myself from this motif, which I did not succeed in doing. In this edition, editor Beverley Ellis provides important notes on interpretation.

The tonal material of the work consists of several series of intervals that are composed in a dialog-like manner, with the focus on upward and downward movements. The composer encourages free, individual interpretation. This performing edition was edited by Beverly Ellis.