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Title: SKORPION
fuer Orgel mit zwei Manualen und Pedal
Composer: Klaus Knopper (klaus@knopper.net)
Format: 300dpi Postscript, 3 pages DinA4 or letter
Description: freetonal piece for pipe organ
(with german and english comment, small biography)
First Published: Ken Rich's ZUM Magazine
URL: http://www.knopper.net/musik/
Technical remarks:
My favourite tempo for this piece is Larghetto, but the player may
choose anything faster or slower.
In the first and last segments the fingers of each hand move across
the manuals like scorpion's legs. Ever see a scorpion walk? It shifts
its legs asynchronically, lifting a left foot while releasing a right
one.
The rhythmically irregular chords accompanying the continuing left hand
theme in the second segment contrast with the regular meter of the
first section.
In the third, quieter section, different themes run against each other,
ending in short, abrupt chords. I think this came out of thinking
about a musical representation of a constellation.
The tone cluster in the next section should be so registered that
only the delicate beating of the interference patterns from the low
minor seconds can be heard, not the distinct notes. The chromatically
descending trills crawl down against the pedal theme.
The following section, formed out of "towers" of sixteenth and
thirtysecond notes in the upper voices and quarter notes in the pedal,
resolves to an unexpected C major chord.
In the last segment the opening theme returns, somewhat differently.
It should be played more gently than at first.
"Skorpion" is one of my first "atonal" pieces.
K.K. 1994