专辑简介

Stephen Yarbrough Musical Stance

I write music that is unashamedly tonal and melodic in nature. I do so because I love music that is primarily consonant, lyric and accessible to a wide audience. At the same time, I am not unaware of current trends in new music. Those currents do inform my work in ways which enlarge and enrich my own musical vocabulary. I am constantly listening to new music, and have a wide network of composer friends which include two whom have won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. My music is often rhythmically charged with changing meters and shifting accents. It contains very rich, colorful harmony, which is not shy of dissonance for the sake of expression or enrichment of basic triadic sonorities. It makes use of “free” tonality that is often unconstrained by functional principles. It is by all means lyric, with an emphasis on memorable melody. I believe it is the artist’s calling to make his vision accessible to as many people as possible, but without compromising the quality or integrity of the writing that incarnates that vision.

I write for the traditional ensembles of “classical” music, and have pieces in my catalogue representative of a rich variety of classical genres. Writing for the orchestra is a special love of mine, and I have received many commissions to write for the same.