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Three Pieces for Strings
for string orchestra
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About
These pieces were composed while Ritchie was a second year student at Canterbury University, in 1980. They received their first performance at the Cambridge Summer Music school later that year. The three movements, lasting 9 minutes, are entitled Agitation, Resignation and Desperation, and show a willingness to explore free-tonal effects to create a restless quality in the music. Resignation is a Shostakovich-like passacaglia, based on a 12-note theme, while the opening movement features changing metres.