The musical compositions of Richard Burdick
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Opus 98

The Star
for violin, oboe, horn and piano

1996

SEE the sheet music here at MusicaNeo.

In five movements:
I. Thesis
II. Moderato
III. Andante
IV. Fast
V. Molto Allegro

This is a short demo from movement three

This is the demo of the whole work

The Star, opus 98, was written for a concert December 1996 on the Trinity Chamber Concerts series in Berkeley and a Circle Concerts program in Davis.

Premiered December 28 1996 in Berkeley with a repeat performance in Davis Dec. 29th 1996

The work is a transitional work using both old (1st) and second version scale tonalities for the I ching hexagram # 21 & 22. Which is an inverse pair.

The process of writing my book "The Major Scales', which evaluates many assumptions in music, I have reevaluated my tonality assignments for the I ching hexagrams and the way the scales are spelled. The pattern is quite similar to the tonalities originally assigned in the early 1980's but it has been improved to make opposites and inversion scales more logical. The theory of tetrachords is now being used in assigning scale tones to the hexagram.

A primary part of the melody construction is the relationship between the scale tones and the natural overtones series, which can be seen directly in the Minuet trio movement.