CHINA GATES, BY JOHN ADAMS:
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This is ‘China Gates’ by the celebrated American minimalist composer, John Adams. China Gates is based on the same technique as its much longer cousin Phrygian Gates. It is a very gentle and relaxed tune, with “chiming rippling notes” that have been compared by Adams himself to music by gamelan. In China Gates, rhythm, melody, texture and harmony are all depressed, and “automatism” of time and inanimate objects such as the “steady rainfall” at the time Adams wrote the piece China Gates; were emphasized.
The short piano piece, China Gates was one of John Adams’ short piano pieces. It was composed for a 17 year old pianist, Sarah Cahill. It consists of three parts. The first part varies between A-flat and G-sharp. The third part oscillates between F Lydian and F locrian. The second part rotates among all four A-flat, G-sharp, F Lydian, and F locrian).
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