Mirror Echoes

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this is quite a robust, even athletic little piece. I think it sounds more complex at first than it actually is. Practise hands separately at first. Can be played softer or louder as you like. The 'knees' part is jsut for fun, although with a sounding pulse, the character of the piece is somewhat changed. Without any audible beat, we can't perceive the actual metre, because the downbeats are 'mystified' by the canons (at the quaver, crotchet, and dotted crotchet). With an audible pulse or beat, it actually becomes more of a little rhythm piece', which could even be a modern jazz piece, where you don't perceive the inverted (and invertible) counterpoint so much as the fresh textures, deliberate angularities and light-hearted, jaunty quality. Even then, you can add a constant pulse and ply any metre you like (ie chance the metre ad lib) - or just add a jazz or rock drummer. Interesting for me is the place in between, or in the middle of, the stylistic crossover - ie whereabouts is it? I think the piece inhabits a little aural world of its own, though the relationship to JSB clearly cant be overlooked!