{"id":3769,"date":"2026-07-29T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=3769"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:21:50","slug":"palermo-canons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/palermo-canons\/","title":{"rendered":"Palermo Canons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Palermo Canons (2021-2024)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">for solo piano [16:00]<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/composersedition.com\/christopher-trapani-palermo-canons\/\">SCORE<\/a> at COMPOSERS EDITION<\/em><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/soundcloud%253Aplaylists%253A2085501888&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\" title=\"Christopher Trapani\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Christopher Trapani<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\/sets\/palermo-canons\" title=\"Palermo Canons\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Palermo Canons<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I. Four Bells<br \/>\nII. Spingere<br \/>\nIII. Tirare<br \/>\nIV. Convex Mirror<br \/>\nV. Broken Tiles<br \/>\nVI. Cilindro<br \/>\nVII. Six Bells (Epiphany)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, my wife and I put in a bid on an apartment in Palermo. A few months later, in the reshuffling of the early Covid era, I received an out-of-the-blue inquiry from Benjamin Hochman for a new piece. Zoom discussions about our shared musical interests clarified the mission: A set of canonic miniatures for solo piano, each of which (I later decided) would be somehow linked to my newly adopted (but also ancestral) home in Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The goal of <I>Palermo Canons<\/I> is to extend the definition of what a canon \u2014 a snippet of music repeated at a prescribed time interval \u2014 can be. Spingere (\u201cPush\u201d) presents a quick version of a converging canon, where two voices drive at different speeds towards a point of alignment. Tirare (\u201cPull\u201d) teases counterpoint and chords out of a single rapid descent. In Convex Mirror, voices move inward and outward in reflected patterns but warped rhythms, like distortions in curved glass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Broken Tiles started as an homage to Ligeti, with a wonky moto perpetuo ostinato and canonic interjections in registral extremes. Cilindro invokes the music of the marionette shows at the Opera dei Pupi: hand-churned barrel pianos with wild dips in tempo. Material cycles then disappears in a process of elimination as the dense starting texture is revealed to be a single canonic line wrapped around the slowing cylinder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cycle is bookended by transcriptions of the bells from the Palermo cathedral, in two versions: the ordinary chime of four bells \u2014 each tolling at its own speed \u2014 and the feast day version with six bells, here transcribed from a recording made on January 6, 2021 in the calm of quarantine, hours before the storming of the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><I>Palermo Canons<\/I> was commissioned by and dedicated to Benjamin Hochman, with support from the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, where the work received its full premiere on September 12, 2024.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palermo Canons (2021-2024) &nbsp; for solo piano [16:00] &nbsp; SCORE at COMPOSERS EDITION &nbsp; Christopher Trapani \u00b7 Palermo Canons &nbsp; I. 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