Variations on ‘Time and Time Again’

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In his Variations on ‘Time and Time Again’ Currier upends the typical theme and variations genre, in which a melody or other generative material will be introduced at or near the outset, and then deconstructed, expanded upon, or otherwise developed. In Currier’s compact work, melodic and harmonic cells or fragments appear during the course of the four interconnected variations. For most of the piece, the theme seems almost like a mirage, just imagined or hinted at; reinterpreted before the fact, as it were. The theme finally appears near the end of the work, and turns out to be a languid, richly-harmonized bluesy ballad Currier has called ‘Time and Time Again’ (and worthy of being expanded into its own independent composition!).

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