{"id":276,"date":"2020-11-10T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T10:31:33","slug":"edwards-ross-b-1943-piano-trio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276","title":{"rendered":"Edwards, Ross (b. 1943) &#8211; Piano trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.456%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yfnb8hoeRvU?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4 data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"38.08px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontSize:28; line-height: 1.36; --minFontSize:28;\">My program note from the &#8220;Landscapes&#8221; performance<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Piano trio<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ross Edwards (b. 1943)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">i.\tAllegretto<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">iii.\tAllegro assai<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossedwards.com\/\">Ross Edwards<\/a> was born and raised in Sydney. He studied composition at the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide, and in London, working under Richard Meale and Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, as well as serving a kind of apprenticeship with Peter Sculthorpe in Sydney during his holidays. Although trained in avant-garde modernism, Edwards began to move away from that style, increasingly finding inspiration in the natural environment. For several years in the 1970s, due to a heavy teaching load, he composed little, but said of this time: \u201c\u2026.my only serious listening was done sitting in the bush, listening more carefully than most of us get a chance to do to the natural sounds. It helped me come to terms with the fact that all of the world&#8217;s music must have originated, in some way from the sounds of nature&#8230; and later, when I started writing again, it was especially the insect patterns and rhythms I&#8217;d heard that helped me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This piano trio, dedicated to Ross Edwards\u2019 wife, Helen, was commissioned by the 1999 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Tonight we are playing the outer two movements, Allegretto and Allegro assai. Edwards described Allegretto as having musical ties to his Guitar Concerto (1995), and that he had in mind \u2018sunlight sparkling on the Arafura Sea, north of Australia.\u2019 It is in a loose sonata form, with coda, the first theme consisting of a flowing, irregular waltz (mainly in the piano score) in E aeolian mode, transitioning over drones into what we envision as an ecstatic, morning bird-call string duet in G major (second theme). The development begins a little like the opening theme, but soon moves to E mixolydian mode, with a version of the bird-call duet over a jaunty bass piano ostinato (reminding me of frogs). The ostinato fades into coda material in C major, with a ripple effect between the instruments. A reprise of the first and second themes is followed by another rendition of coda material, in G major, but here as a piano solo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The third movement, Allegro assai, is one of Edwards\u2019 well-known Maninyas \u2013 a \u2018nonsense word\u2019 coined by Edwards to describe his highly rhythmic, fast but irregular \u2018Australian dance chant\u2019 pieces. In G Lydian mode, the metre constantly changes, and the texture is a mixture of what reminds me of squawking cockatoos (in the piano) and a wild barn dance of sorts between the strings, together with drones and sounds like clicking insects. The drama gradually builds to a climax, featuring an arpeggiando spanning the entire piano, unexpectedly landing in E flat major.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:10.08%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:82px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-space-evenly fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-liftup-border-radius:0px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"awb-image-frame awb-image-frame-1 imageframe-liftup\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-dropshadow imageframe-1\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: 15px 15px 19px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);box-shadow: 15px 15px 19px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"898\" title=\"Ross_Edwards,_Composer\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27814%27%20height%3D%27898%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20814%20898%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27814%27%20height%3D%27898%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Ross_Edwards_Composer.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-305\"\/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #3e3e3e 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #3e3e3e 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #3e3e3e 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #3e3e3e 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Ross Edwards &#8211; <span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px;\">photo credit <\/span><a href=\"<https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0>&#8221; data-fusion-font=&#8221;true&#8221; style=&#8221;font-family: var(&#8211;body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(&#8211;body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(&#8211;body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(&#8211;body_typography-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px;&#8221;>Silverpixel<\/a><span data-fusion-font=\"true\" style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing); font-size: 14px;\">, CC BY-SA 4.0  via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The score for this work can be purchased from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianmusiccentre.com.au\/workversion\/edwards-ross-piano-trio\/14095\">Australian Music Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Edwards&#8217; notes on this work can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossedwards.com\/piano-trio-1998\/\">on his website<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Edwards, Ross (b. 1943) - Piano trio - Australian Piano Trios<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edwards, Ross (b. 1943) - Piano trio - Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Australian Piano Trios\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-24T10:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276\",\"name\":\"Edwards, Ross (b. 1943) - Piano trio - Australian Piano Trios\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T11:15:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-24T10:31:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=276#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Featured works\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=15\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Edwards, Ross (b. 1943) &#8211; 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