Concerto
delle Oche Volanti
Concept and Structure: Dan Katz
Implementation:
Greg Pliska
There are a number of clues in the verse and in the
piece of
"music"... the title, direction, and author translate
to "Concerto of
the Flying Geese," "always connected"
and "bird formation," references
to the V-shape in which
geese fly.
The verse says "the sea birds have flown,"
which is meant to call your
attention to the fact that there are no C's in
the piece. "Each other
group stays joined together in song,"
suggests that each other set of
notes (by value) is a group of
"birds" and if you join them together
they spell letters (like
geese).
Finding which notes are which is straightforward if you read
music;
the only snag is to remember that accidentals that occur during
a
measure last until the end of the measure. The letters spelled out
by
the notes are:
B: D
Bb: I
A: M
Ab: I
G:
N
Gb: I
F: S
E: H
Eb: I
D: N
Db:G
Thus,
the answer is DIMINISHING.