Unison Spans
LA Phil Etudes: Book 3, Part 2
world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund
At-A-Glance
Composed: 2025
Length: c. 5 minutes
About this Piece
Unison Spans asks the harpist to maintain an independent voice of one note repeated—a jagged drone. On top of this, varied spiky interjections, chorales, and fragments of melodies begin to tease apart the drone, but the fundamental motor of the piece remains the same.
—Nico Muhly