Partita is a set of 13 very short movements, all of which refer to pre-existing, and very old, genres: fanfares, songs, musettes, dances, and a chorale. The form is best understood as a kind of disrupted rondo. The musettes function as the rondo theme, alternating with dances and songs. The increasingly long fanfare movements break into this neat symmetrical structure with increasing frequency, and come to dominate the piece. In the last movement the soloist leaves the stage, and the strings play new chorale material while memories of trumpet fanfares are heard from afar.
Year: 2018 Duration: 12′ Instrumentation: Trumpet, String Quintet Commission: Commissioned by Matilda Lloyd with funds provided by the RVW Trust.
Performances
25th October 2019 Matilda Lloyd, Kirkmann Quartet Avon Valley Concerts, The United Reformed Church, Fordingbridge
8th July 2018 Matilda Lloyd, Jack Greed, Anthony Poon, Kim Becker, Yuri Lee, Joe Cowie St. Clement’s Church, Sandwich (Deal Festival)