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<strong>Solace</strong> <strong>Dance</strong><br />
Grade 4<br />
Duration: ca. 4.00<br />
Educational Points:<br />
Perusal Score-Not <strong>for</strong> per<strong>for</strong>mance use<br />
This piece uses many different key areas and will give students experience switching between<br />
various key signatures. The musical themes are fairly repetitive and allow <strong>for</strong> students to<br />
concentrate on these changing keys. Articulation is also crucial in the main thematic material.<br />
These accents and staccatos serve a stylistic purpose. The music should have a light and<br />
energetic dance-like feeling to it. It may take some time <strong>for</strong> students to feel com<strong>for</strong>table with<br />
their own part and how the counterpoint fits together.<br />
About the Composer:<br />
Nicole Piunno is a composer who views music as a vehicle <strong>for</strong> seeing and experiencing the<br />
realities of life. Her music often reflects the paradoxes in life and how these seemingly opposites<br />
are connected as they often weave together. Her harmonic language and use of counterpoint<br />
mirrors the complexity of our world by acknowledging lightness and darkness, past and<br />
present, beauty and brokenness, confinement and freedom, spiritual and physical, life and<br />
death.<br />
Nicole holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition and a Master of Music degree in<br />
theory pedagogy at Michigan State University. She earned a Master of Music degree in<br />
composition at Central Michigan University. Nicole earned a Bachelor of Music degree in<br />
Music Education and her emphasis was on trumpet. For more in<strong>for</strong>mation, visit:<br />
www.nicolepiunno.com<br />
Program Notes:<br />
While at the Art Institute of Chicago, I spent a good amount of time with the works of Van<br />
Gogh. There was one particular painting of an outdoor scene that caught my attention. While<br />
engaging with this work I remember saying to myself: “This is solace”. I often think it takes<br />
work and seeking to find solace, as it does not always come to us naturally. In this work I<br />
imagined a person dancing her way to experiencing this sense of peace.<br />
www.nicolepiunno.com<br />
Copyright © 2016 by Nicole Piunno (BMI)<br />
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