In Coincidences, written in 1969, I was concerned with creating various lengths and qualities of harmonic periods - from clearly cadenced progressions to open ended chordal sequences. The large formal idea was the gradual movement from a single note texture to a chordal texture and from aperiodic rhythms to periodic rhythms. In the course of the work, the resultant harmonic periods and the surface melodic gestures may coincide exactly, thereby clearly defining a musical span, or they may coincide at differing points in their respective developments creating cross articulations and obscuring the harmonic unit.
     The title, while suggesting this compositional aspect, is primarily intended to indicate the rhapsodic character of the work which should be played with great freedom and spontaneity.
    Coincidences is published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan, and received a Naumburg Recording Award in 1973.

Richard Trythall

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