Sergey Zhukov    
     

 

composer

honored art worker of Russian Federation

 
                       
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 B-A-C-H variations

/1976/

 

Visually it is a circle formed from two musical staffs and divided into four sectors. The musical material of each sector represents a variation on one of the named notes (B-A-C-H). In the center of a circle on crossing of lines-staff is the note which in four different keys is read differently: or as B, or A, or C, or H - an original key to game which is carried out by rotation of a circle and performance serially top and /or/ the bottom sectors. Thus the author supposes any sequence and any direction of movement during performance of the composition.