In “The Tale”, 99 Hungarian folk tales are „squeezed” into 12 minutes and 34 seconds. The form of the composition corresponds to the general structure of all folk tales in the world:
– the introductory formulas (… once upon a time …)
– the quantitative description of the characters (3 brothers, 7 young goats…)
– the conflict (here a violent fight against the dragon)
– the resolution of the conflict leading up to the final formulas (… it was so.)
All the sounds of the sound play are produced by a female voice, filtered in the form of a three-part ratio round (3: 4: 5), cut, and as a result it is faster, to imitate a bird, or slower, to imitate a bear, telling the fairy tale made of fairy tales.
The time shifts create passages full of polyphony and counterpoint, where sequentiality turns into an odd simultaneity, as in our contemporary world of music, where three or four successive centuries are layered into and on the top of each other mixing into and suppressing the present time.
/Peter Eötvös – 1995
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