Dongryul Lee

Korea

9 November 1978

Le Tombeau de Harvey

„This work is strongly based on bell acoustics. The bell’s luminous and spiritual sonic

physiognomies include not only inharmonic spectral com ponents but also a myriad of artificially created non-tonal intervals generated by an infinite number of vibrational modes. These campanologic features became the core materials of this work.

Jonathan Harvey wrote his early magnum opus, Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco based on sounds from the tenor bell at Winchester Cathedral and the voice of his own son. This spectrum became the aural seed of this work. For the opening Allegro Spiritoso section, I used an algorithm devised by my teacher, Heinrich Taube, but developed and accreted for my own compositional purposes in MATLab. Harvey’s music has always been a profound source of inspirations in my musical journey. As a student, I carried at least one of his scores in my bag for a substantial period of time and thus, the title given is to honor to him.”