gerasterte Dämmerung

Thank you very much for your kind review!

The idea of ornaments wasn't specifically a part of the concept, however I wanted to play with the contrast of very organic, "flowering" shapes and harsh angularity, by combining freely drawn organic curves with a rather rigid system that would turn everything into a step-wise movement. The "ornaments" may very well be a result of these freely drawn shapes (partly, I actually drew them graphically as lines on graph paper). Another reason for the "ornamental effect" may be that it's very often not the individual note that is most important, but a greater line and the harmonic colours they move through. This gives the individual note something "casual", or incidental, not unlike an ornamentation (I'm quite influenced by French music there).

I understand your comparison to that Horn concerto of Ligeti. Great piece! Another influence on these "narrow" horn parts (the horns are often a minor second apart) may be the Epilogue of Grisey's "Les Espaces Acoustiques", where a group of horns playes a line extremely loudly, all very closely together in a cluster, creating a penetrating, powerful sound. Terrific piece! (Well, the whole "espaces acoustiques" is, of course!)

I'll gladly explain my "grids", in a bit. I guess I'll do it right in this thread though. The lesson thread is, to my knowledge, only for systematic teacher-student pairings, plus this "grid technique" isn't really a general musical techique of public interest, but just something I thought of myself, used a bit, and might never use again (I probably will though, in variants).