"String Trio No. 3 - I (2000)" genre: Contemporary
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	Dedicated to Szidi Juhasz, my beautiful Hungarian friend. Click on the title to view the program notes.
	MP3.com CD: String Trio No. 3 - buy it! CD: The Trio Premieres: String Trio No. 3 Credits: Composed and produced by David Alan Earnest ©2000 (BMI) Performed by the Langroise Trio
	Story Behind the Song I - Vivo allegro In October of 1998 I had the privilege of working on three feature films for North By Northwest Productions of Spokane. The first two films I worked as dialog editor, sound effects editor, and foley artist. The third film I worked as orchestrator/copyist for the composer Don Caron of Spokane. Don decided to record the score in Budapest and I was asked to accompany him as his assistant at the scoring sessions. One day we were taken by our interpreter to a village outside Budapest for lunch. We chose a small table outside a cafe overlooking the village square. There was an ensemble of musicians playing in the square consisting of clarinet, violin, guitar, and bass. One of the pieces they performed caught our attention because of its incessant rhythmic pattern of 4 beats + 3 beats + 3 beats. I quickly notated this rhythm on a napkin and stuck it in my pocket. On the plane ride back to the US, I wrote out every permutation of that rhythm that I could think of: grouping the beats in different orders, putting accents in different places, etc. When I arrived home I started composing a new movement for string trio using this rhythmic scheme. The movement is in an ABA form, the first and last section employing the 4+3+3 pattern and col legno, a bowing technique, using, instead of the horsehair of the bow, the wood or back of the bow to set the strings in motion. This creates a unique percussive sound. The B section includes a vivace using moving clusters.

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