Idyllily (2000) by Marc Sabat published on 2013-12-21T23:50:42Z composed by Martin Arnold, John Oswald, Marc Sabat and Richard Wagner for 11 strings: 6 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Violoncellos, Contrabass note: “Idyllily” is the result of a series of experimental tranformations applied to Richard Wagner’s composition “Siegfried Idyll”. The accidentals and dynamics have been removed, the music has been diatonically transposed, legato articulations have been replaced with separated bowing, tempo has been substantially increased, certain pitches at the end of phrases have been sustained to produce modal pedal points. The music should be played with detailed and idiosyncratic phrasing in the individual parts, whilst remaining for the most part within a mp – mf dynamic and maintaining a light, baroque articulation. It is a kind of imaginary “time-shifting” dissolving the typically Romantic surface characteristics of Wagner’s score. Open strings and harmonics may be used often, vibrato ought to remain modest and ornamental. Genre Richard Wagner