I (A Meditation on Iona)

Name: I (A Meditation on Iona) Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1444 - Partitura de Estudo - James MacMillan - Boosey and Hawkes - Ensemble de Cordas
Brand: Boosey and Hawkes
Price: 19.40 EUR
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Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1444

19,40 €

Editora:Boosey and Hawkes

Categoria:Ensemble de Cordas

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Descrição

This work came about through a collaborative experiment with the sculptress Sue Jane Taylor. It is a pensive and reflective work for strings and percussion lasting about fifteen minutes, and is mostly slow and static. It is built around a few recurrent melodic motives which revolve n a cyclic and episodic structure. Sometimes the material is very simple, like a single tolling metallic sound accompanied by slowly shifting chords, or a fragmented and hesitant solo violin or viola accompanied by patiently evolving clusters and chords. Sometimes, the material is more assertive involving trills, tremolandi and glissandi and low heavy chords with primally simple percussive ideas.The whole is intended to give an impression of the island of Iona where St. Columba lived, and died in 597. It is a place of stark and desolate beauty, a focus of deep spiritual resonance and historical significance. (James MacMillan)