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Little Drummer Boy

from Carol Colors by Rudi Seitz

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This piece opens in two-part counterpoint; after the tune is stated once, the two lines are repeated in a higher range with a third voice added below them. (It's the only place in the album where a part that had functioned as a bass line moves up to become a middle voice with a new bass line placed below it.) After the three-voice passage ends, the initial two-voice music is repeated but with different instruments, toy piano and string bass.

You might notice a gesture where the bass line repeats the same pitch -- the tonic -- in a sequence of four half-notes. That gesture started out as a "musical placeholder" that I added to the score because I couldn't think of anything else to do in that particular place. However, when I realized that those four half-notes could evoke the sound of a slow drum, the passage became the basis of the arrangement, and gave me the idea of actually introducing timpani into the piece. Those four half-notes in the bass could also be heard as a slowed-down echo of a fragment of the tune itself, where there are four quarter-notes at a repeated pitch.


Instruments: harp, timpani, toy piano, bass
Style: two and three-voice counterpoint

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from Carol Colors, released December 15, 2014

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Rudi Seitz Boston, Massachusetts

Rudi draws upon his passion for the counterpoint of Bach and Renaissance masters, his delight in the expressive poignancy of Schubert and Chopin, and his fascination with jazz and the musics of North and South India to craft compact works in which every note counts. Along with composing, he sings and plays guitar. Rudi lives in Boston, MA. ... more

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