Document Type
Creative Work
ANZSRC / FoR Code
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
COinS
Creative Work
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
Publication Details
Ingham, S. F. (2002). Frampton Elegy (trio for bass clarinet, cello and piano). :Sydney College of the Arts, Rozelle Great White Noise Production Company.
Digital file not available. For access to the CD (audio file) of this item, please contact Michael Organ, Manager Repository Services: morgan@uow.edu.au.
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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT
Research Background
As a composer and musician engaged in practice-based research at the tertiary level for over thirty-five years, my original creative works have served to extend and develop various genres of acoustic and electroacoustic music. These works have been performed and in many cases commissioned by performers of the highest international calibre, and subsequently broadcast and disseminated via recordings and scores. Frampton Elegy, which is dedicated to the memory of the great jazz musician and Wollongong graduate Dr Roger Frampton, was originally composed as the slow movement of a chamber music trio and was later published as a work in its own right.
Research Contribution
This work, composed in 2001/2, is the central movement of a three-movement Trio, which exists as a stand-alone piece. It has toured extensively in this form by the commissioning artists, the Sydney-based Charisma Ensemble. Elegy is based on a cyclical structure, with a central section citing and freshly harmonising a melodic line composed by Frampton himself.
Research Significance
The Frampton Elegy is a purely acoustic instrumental piece, which develops and extends the repertory for the bass clarinet. It was included on the 2002 Charisma CD (GWN002), which has resulted in the work reaching a wide audience via ABC broadcasts, and led to its selection as an AMEB (Australian Music Examinations Board) examination work.