Instrumentaiton: String Orchestra

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Clockwerk was written in 1991 when Maria Grenfell was a student at the University of Canterbury. The concept for the piece comes from Bela Bartók's Music for strings, percussion and celesta and Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Clockwerk uses a lydian-dominant scale and is built with a fugal construction where the opening musical subject enters one section at a time, beginning with the first violins. It works its way through many keys and gradually transforms into a new subject in triple meter, ending with an accelerated flourish.