Message from the Nduna

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Homage to György Kurtág

Catalogue Number 0412

Composed 6 March 2019, Mostertsdrift

Dedication Mokale Koapeng

Duration c.1’05”

Message from the Nduna uses the row of five pitches that appear on my ‘Ex Libris’ sticker (image below). The row is transposed, inverted, combined in contrary motion, in a similar manner to a twelve-note row, and eventually the seven other pitches are added. Kurtág has composed pieces with cryptic titles like this, and after I was christened ‘Nduna’ by a journalist in 2003, Mokale Koapeng insisted “Once an Nduna, always an Nduna”.

 

 

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