Description

Vijay Iyer is one of the most significant contemporary composers and performers on the piano. This manuscript represents a compilation of small group compositions by Iyer during a period from 1999 through 2008. The bulk of the pieces were originally written for Vijay’s quartet with altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Stephan Crump, and drummers Marcus Gilmore, Tyshawn Sorey, and Derrek Phillips, and documented on the albums Panoptic Modes (2001), Blood Sutra (2003), Reimagining (2005), and Tragicomic (2008). The music features experimentation on rhythmic techniques, harmony, orchestration, soloing structures, and macro-form, with an overriding focus on sound and feel. Thisvolume contains contrasting compositional approaches so as to give the reader insight into the broad spectrum of compositional language and devices employed by Iyer. Photo credit: Lena Adasheva

Contents

1. Aftermath
2. Atlantean Tropes
3. Because of Guns (Hey Joe)
4. Bibi Sketch 2
5. The Big Almost
6. Brute Facts
7. Configurations
8. Configurations Solo
9. Desiring
10. Father Spirit
11. Habeas Corpus
12. Imagined Nations
13. Inertia
14. Invariants
15. Macaca Please
16. Machine Days
17. Phalanx
18. Revolutions
19. Revolutions Solo
20. Song for Midwood
21. Threnody
22. Threnody Solo
23. Without Lions