April Mok
fantAsia. fantAsia seeks to evoke, but not replicate, modes and other stylistic features of certain musical traditions of the Orient as filtered through the composer’s impressions and sensibilities. It juxtaposes rigid metrical regularity with rhythmic elusiveness, melismatic fluency with jagged syncopation, and chromaticism with modalism, weaving the strands into a variegated fabric of associations and textures.Pages: 19 (piano pt.), 7 (mandolin pt.), 8˝” x 11”
Level: Advanced
Performance Time: App. 7 min.
Below you can hear a 60-second excerpt from fantAsia
performed by Joel Mahan, mandolin, & Scott Pratt, piano.
