Tük

Tük is a twelve separate movement piano reduction originally written for Ballet and Orchestra. Its music is traditionally tonal yet has moments of largely dissonant, contrapuntal turbulence. It has the enhanced ability to make the listener feel emotion and is inherently emotionally charged. Broadly speaking, it is highly stylized and effectively reflects a fundamental darkening of tone as the characteristics of the music become more jagged and disjointed.

It uses confident music that hovers in polytonality and Stravinskian-inflected atonality, which offers dramatic lyricism and melodic and rhythmic interest in a variety of ensemble and full orchestra moments. It swiftly moves from fluid and flexible reflective complexities that fall easily upon the ear to more minimalistic undercurrents that become multi-layered and draw strong feelings from characterizations and musical contrasts. It is rich with orchestration and exquisite language that reflects a development in the late-20th century harmonic style with a typical polish and flair that has an instinct for intuitive dissonance and striking counterpoint.