PINK
(2000) for alto saxophone, violin, electric bass, electric guitar, piano, and percussion |
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Pink
(2000) is based on the Andy Warhol work, Sixteen Jackies (1964). What
intrigued me most about the Warhol work was the use of repetition, the
use of a female icon, and his appropriation of the photograph of Jackie
Onasis. To create the work I followed a similar plan. I appropriated
songs from three current female pop princesses: Britney Spears, Oops
I did it again, Christina Aguilera, Genie in a Bottle, and
Mandy Moore's, Candy. From this borrowed musical palette I choose
melodic and harmonic elements that interested me and presented them
in altered forms. I decided to model the formal structure of the music
on the rise and fall of a pop star. The beginning of the work, after
a dreamy introduction, begins with a bang…the composition comes
to an end with a catchy canon, symbolic of that one hit, that eventually
fades away. |
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PINK
COPYRIGHT © 2000 BY JAMES BARRY (ASCAP) |
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