![]() ![]() ![]() The aim of this paper is to argue that a scientific understanding of an extended physical metaphor unifies the processes at work in Rings, the first movement of Adès’s violin concerto Concentric Paths (2005).3 The metaphor of celestial motion is offered to us on the cover of the score and in the composer’s program notes. Despite a sometimes overwhelming level of detail, one feels the physical causality behind the movement of notes. Simple, identical processes unfolding at varying rates create expansions and contractions of harmonies in pitch space. MULTIPLE TIME-SCALES IN ADÈS’S RINGS DANIEL FOX INTRODUCTION HOMAS ADÈS OFTEN SPEAKS about his music in scientific or physical terms, be it “the magnetic forces of notes” or the importance of “responding to temperature.”1 He claims that “Berlioz has brought us into the Modern world of relativity and uncertainty.”2 Adès’s music often conveys the sense of a natural process unfolding. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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