Title:  Quatrain

   Date of Composition:  1993

   Instrumentation: solo piano

   Publisher: American Composers Alliance

   Date of Publication: 1993

   Duration: Approx 10 minutes

   Recordings:

        The New American Romantics
        Called "Quatrains" on recording.

   Notes:
   
   Pleskow's recent music combines traditional and contemporary harmonies
   and is distinguished by its expressive melodic writing in unusual
   textural settings. Completed in December of 1993, Quatrains consists
   of seven epigrams interrelated by motivic ritornelli (refrains) and
   intervalic unity while contrasting in texture, mood and tempo. Its
   musical language is highly contrapuntal employing angular melodic
   lines and a wide harmonic palette. Written for Max Lifchitz who
   premiered it in January of 1994, the work was described by the New
   York Times as "... a tersely expressive ... neo-Lisztian essay...."
   The composer hopes that the music of Quatrains will evoke that of a
   canzona, a favorite genre of the Renaissance madrigalists.