for the Midi Keyboard, 1991, duration: 9 minutes.
In Spirit and Stone exists in two versions; this version for piano and tape, and a version composed for an 88-note MIDI controller and interactive electronic sounds. Notation in the score of the tape part is intended primarily to indicate timing with pitch information secondary.
The structure of this version of the work can be diagrammed as follows:
measures materials manipulation comments
1-3 Intro tape solo
4-6 "A" section piano introduction
6-52 "B" section
6-34 "a" sub-section
34-38 "b" sub-section five statements
40-52 "c" sub-section split in middle
52-69 "C" section tape interlude
69-70 "A" section retrograde-inversion
71-115 "B" section retrograde-inversion
71-84 "c" sub-section split in middle
87-91 "b" sub-section five statements
93-115 "a" sub-section
116-155 "D" section piano solo
155-197 "B" section inversion
155-178 "a" sub-section
179-182 "b" sub-section five statements
185-197 "c" sub-section split in middle
197-198 "A" section inversion
198-215 "C" section tape interlude
215-216 "A" section retrograde
217-265 "B" section retrograde
217-229 "c" sub-section split in middle
233-237 "b" sub-section five statements
239-265 "a" sub-section
268-276 Cadenza and Ending
"A" section in Prime, Retrograde-Inversion, Inversion, and Retrograde successively
Timothy Blair, Midi Keyboard