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Druskininkanonas (2011; 2024 version for oboe, Eb clarinet, viola, alto flute and bassoon))
⟪德魯斯基寧卡農⟫ （2011,2024年為雙簧管、降E調單簧管、中提琴、中音長笛和低音管而作的版本）
TimeArt Ensemble 時間藝術工作室
（鍾安琪、王冠傑、廖培雅、吳正宇、歐易欣）
"Ghost in the Machine", George Holloway Composer Portrait Concert, National Recital Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, 9th April '24.
盧長劍作曲家肖像音樂會「機械中的幽靈」，2024年4月9日在台灣國家演奏廳
（為了中文曲解請往下滑。）
For a long time, I had been interested in creating a piece of music that can be entirely written on one page, so that the entire structure of the music is fully presented in a single "image" (i.e. this one page of music). This is the approach that I adopted in my quintet Druskininkanonas, composed in 2011 for Lithuania's Druskomanija contemporary music festival. This quintet includes four performers on stage (alto flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, and viola) playing an extremely lively and frenzied canon, and one bassoonist behind the audience who plays the canon theme at their own pace. The quartet on stage uses the same page of the score but begins playing at different times, to create canon. The canon depicts a gradual transition from very high and closely clustered sounds to more open and stable harmonic textures. As each performer approaches the final section of the music, they begin to repeatedly play a concise theme one after another, so that eventually all four performers are playing the same music in more-or-less unison (thus transforming the music from four independent parts into highly unified music). This final section also rises again, this time more dreamlike, and at this moment, the fifth performer appears from afar, playing a hint of the canon theme, as a vague recollection of the beginning of the music.
Druskininkanonas was the earliest composed piece feature in my Composer Portrait Concert in 2024. It was completed the year before I moved to Asia and is representative of my first creative period. Like this performance, this work was also the opening piece at the final concert of the Druskomanija contemporary music festival, where it elicited a very enthusiastic response from the audience.
⟪德魯斯基寧卡農⟫（Druskininkanonas ）
為中音長笛、雙簧管、降E單簧管、低音管和中提琴而作
長期以來，盧長劍一直對創作一首可以完全寫在一頁上的音樂作品感興趣，於是音樂的整個結構將在一張「圖像」（即這一頁音樂）中完整呈現。這就是作曲家在他2011年為立陶宛的【Druskomanija】現代音樂節創作的五重奏 ⟪德魯斯基寧卡農⟫（Druskininkanonas ）中採取的方法。這部五重奏包含在舞台上演奏一個極其活力又狂躁的卡農之四位演奏者（中音長笛、雙簧管、降E單簧管和中提琴）以及立在觀眾後方並以自己的速度演奏卡農主題之一位低音管演奏者。在舞台上的四重奏均使用同一頁的樂譜，但在不同時間開始演奏來產生卡農的結構。該卡農描繪了從非常高且緊密聚集的聲音逐漸下降到更開放和穩定的和聲織體。每個演奏者臨近音樂的最後一段時，一個接一個開始不斷地重複一個簡練的主題，以至於最後四位演奏者都在齊奏同樣的音樂（因而原本四個獨立聲部的音樂變成高度統一的音樂）。這最後一段音樂同時再次向上飄揚，這次更加夢幻，並在這時刻出現第五位演奏者從遠處演奏卡農主題的一種暗示，作為音樂開頭朦朧的回憶。
⟪德魯斯基寧卡農⟫為本場音樂會中最早創作的樂曲。它是盧長劍搬到亞洲來的前一年完成，代表了作曲家的第一個創作時期。與本次演出相同，本部作品在【Druskomanija】現代音樂節的最後一場音樂會中也是開場曲，並它引起了觀眾很熱烈的反應。