An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
– Elliot Carter
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
– Elliot Carter
One sixteenth note quintuplet of one measure equals one-eighth note triplet of the next.