Victoria Bond
C-A-G-E-D For String Quintet
Year: 1972
Duration (in minutes): 10'39;25'34;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, string ensemble, string quintet
Instruments: any string, cello, contrabass, viola, violin
Publisher: Subito Music Corporation
Description: Prem: 9/26/72; LA Natural History Museum
I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro con moto
The letters represent the open strings on all the string instruments and are the motive on which the work is structured. In addition to this technical description, it portrays the frustration of any living creature confined against its will, pacing, staring out helplessly, raging.
“Jagged, syncopated rhythms and carefully planned intensities.”
The San Francisco Chronicle