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21 Modes, Adam Bodine
21 Modes, Adam Bodine
Senior Thesis Compositions in Music
21 Modes
by Adam Bodine
In three movements.
Performed by Quartet Nouveau
April 19, 2018
French Parlor, Founders Hall
University of San Diego
Batya MacAdam-Somer and Missy Lukin, violins
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Elizabeth Brown, cello
21 Modes was inspired by curiosity. I wanted to know how many scales would result from reordering the half and whole steps of the major scale. As it turns out there are 21. I composed each of the three movements to explore the sonorities of each scale. The first movement is inspired by Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. The aggressive eighth note string texture became …