IVAR FROUNBERG composer/works Drei-Klang (1982)

Drei-Klang was written for Vestjydsk Kammerensemble's workshop in contemporary music 1982, on which occasion the piece was premiered. This work comprises not only a 'triad' of three inspirational source -the tonal material is controlled by three 'aggregates' (i.e. a kind of chord), three wind instruments and three string instruments make up the instrumentation -but the form consists of three sections equal in length as well.

The first two sections are identical in spite of the fact that no two notes are the same: high is interchanged with low, winds with strings, longer progressions with shorter, and so on. Drei-Klang is extremely tightly structured despite the fact that it was written at the piano.

IvF. 82/96 & Wayne Siegel