Dobrinka Tabakova

Organum Light

Subtitle	for string quintet
Year(s) composed	2014
Publisher	PSNY
Instrumentation	Organum Light is also available in a version for string orchestra. Performance material for the orchestral version is available to hire from Schott Music - https://www.schott-music.com/en/organum-light-no563150.html. The two versions are distinct from one another and the instrumental parts are not interchangeable.
Duration	5'
Premiere	November 11, 2014; Letchworth Garden City, Spirella Ballroom Alexander Sitkovetsky, Boris Brovtsyn (violins); Philip Dukes, Maxim Rysanov (violas); Kristina Blaumane (cello)
Composer note	This work was inspired by Einstein's theory of quantum light - the idea that light exists as tiny particles, or photons. Musically the instruments weave their individual lines to create one whole, as the individual photons combine to make light. The idea of organum singing where a core melody is shadowed in consonant intervals was another inspiration. – Dobrinka Tabakova