Turn belongs to a group of works composed by Per Nørgård after the opera Gilgamesh (1972), and while working on his large Symphony No. 3 (1975). In this period he was working intensely, attempting to achieve some sort of intellectual clarity regarding the so-called hierarchical music which he was in the process of developing. [Source]
[Dedicated to Eriko Makimura]
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