\justify {
· Not all of the inventions are suitable for any keyboard instrument.
A list of suggestions is provided below, but performers are encouraged to be
- creative with instrument choices. Where necessary, music can be played up or
- down the octave to fit instruments with less range. All of the inventions can
+ creative with instrument choices. When necessary, music can be played up or
+ down the octave to fit instruments with a limited range. All of the inventions can
be played on a modern piano.
}
}
Inventions" correspond to each of the 15 partitions and, as such, have
between 1 and 7 strands or voices. Each invention explores ways of
permuting and separating the diatonic collection, creating many types of
-musical expression within a consistent language. Occasionally, vague
+musical expressions within a consistent language. Occasionally, vague
references to tonal idioms arise from the obsessive circulation of
diatonic material.
}
the process of design and discovery throughout this period to the cultivation
of a garden. Therefore, I have titled the collection \bold \italic "Circumnutation," a term
most commonly used in botany to describe the continuous elliptical motion of
-stems and tendrils as they grow. This title also seemed fitting because
+stems and tendrils as they grow. This title also seems fitting because
pitches and collections cycle throughout the inventions and as the character
of the work reaches out to different styles and textures.
}