ANTONIO CORREA MOUNTAIN INTERVALS (I)

For piano
 Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed…

Robert Frost

1. For a while: Come up (by any means of your choosing) a collection of dyads to be played one after
the other in various orders. Take into consideration that the number of dyads cannot be so large as to
impede the idea of repetition and stasis to emerge. Play always slowly and softly. Durations are free
for each dyad. You may rest as often as you consider necessary. Use right pedal throughout.
Silence.

2. For a while: Single notes. Use the same gamut of pitches again and again, creating small gestures
that are genetically connected. Every now and then, introduce a different note to be played
simultaneously with one of the single notes you have been playing all along. All the notes are to be
played softly. Use the right pedal, or not…
Silence.

3. For a while: Select major third on the low register of the instrument, and play it again and again,
with the right pedal depressed throughout. All iterations of the third should be (rather) soft. Subtle
rhythmic variation on the iterations is encouraged. Small pauses here and there.
Silence.

4. For a while: A melody with no accompaniment.

Silence.

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