Joseph Dangerfield








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Eadem Mutato Resurgo for Solo Piano Eadem Mutato Resurgo (although changed, I rise again the same) is the first in a series of etudes that establishes a connection between music and a geometric shape. Eadem explores how the shape of a pentagon might be represented through musical structure and physical gesture. Elements such as pitch, motive, and register are defined by the numeral five to further represent the pentagon. The title is taken from the epithet of the great mathematician Jacque Bernoulli, who was obsessed with the logarithmic spiral, which, like the pentagon, is structurally defined by the so-called Golden Ratio (.618).








03/21/07