Name: Baker, Richard: Motet III
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Baker, Richard: Motet III

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Arrangement: for tenor saxophone
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-rb1m3
Pages: 10
Date Published: 18th Nov 2022

Motet III belongs to an ongoing series of works that juxtapose transcriptions of human speech against transcriptions of musical material that is in some way related to it. This short piece for solo saxophone is a transcription of some remarks Sir Elton John gave to students at the Royal Academy on a visit in 2019, intercut with an extreme time-stretched rendering of some music he referenced in his speech. The saxophone alternates between a mimicking of Elton’s distinctive and very musical speaking voice, and a fragile arpeggiation of a diatonic chorale, the microtonal inflections capturing the subtle variations of recorded sound.

My own relationship with the RAM goes back to my school days. One weekend, my music teacher drove a minibus full of A-Level students down from North Staffordshire to attend a masterclass given by Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod, with George Benjamin acting as their interpreter. I found myself thinking about how transformative that experience had been for me, and this led me to Elton John’s reminisces of the way his time at Junior Academy had shaped his professional life, as my teenage visit had, in another sense, shaped mine.

Motet III is one of a collection of 200 solo pieces written to celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Academy of Music in 2022.

First performance given on 14 June 2021 by Rob Burton at Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music.

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