scoring:piccolo and double bass
duration: 10 1/2 minutes
composed: 1972
dedication: "for Bert and Nancy Turetzky"
published: Novello/Wise Music
status: available for performance
Recorded by Bert and Nancy Turetzky in Melbourne, 1981
This piece is one of a series, for one and two instruments: each refers obliquely to the English hymn-tune which is the common background for all of them. However, it is rarely recognisable, being split into small fragments and re-assembled in such a way as to conceal its identity, which none the less governs the composition throughout. Tesserae are the constituent parts of a mosaic, or the counters used by the anceints in games, having no signifiance in themselves but acquiring it by the use to which they are put.
I. Capriccio
II. Melodia I
III. Serenata
IV. Melodia II (recitativo interrotto)
V. The dream of Monostatos.