Works

I. Melodia
II. Ostinato
III. Pulsação
IV. Sonoridade

Instrumentation (detailed)

Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin, Cello

Performer(s)

Elementos (Elements) is a set of four short pieces dealing with elementary concepts of music. These elements build an extremely focused, simple and direct musical discourse. In the first movement Melodia, melody is paramount, permeating all three instruments. It is the momentary creator of harmony, but also what suggests other musical elements such as the diatonic scale or the triadic chord. In the second movement, the ostinato and its gradual transformations underlie the musical discourse. The third movement is centred on pulse, a basilar and fundamental element of music. The pulse is taken not as something implicit, but as a raw material for musical construction. In very subtle ways the sense of metre arises and fades out. Sonoridade deals with harmonic sonority in a very elementary way as a set of chords are united by simple melodic segments.

Gonçalo Gato

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Elementos	Premiere	2018/Oct/09		Casa da Música	Porto	Portugal	Trio Adamastor Francisco Henriques . violin Pedro Massarrão . cello José Ribeiro . piano	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Gonçalo Gato · NowState  Elementos		elementos Gonçalo Gato	KAIROS	2020 2020