Score & Part [ePDF]
Sonata for viola and piano : Leaving Earth [eScore] / Stuart Greenbaum.
Score & Part
Sonata for viola and piano : Leaving Earth / Stuart Greenbaum.
Library shelf no. 787.3183/GRE 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
I. Realisation (we have to go)
II. Earth Abandoned
III. Memory of life on Earth
This Sonata for Viola and Piano is written for the
Australian National Academy of Music as part of the Greenbaum
Sonata Project (low string sonatas). It is the 11th in a series
of sonatas written in the new millennium. The work is in 3
movements, programmatically envisaging the futuristic possibility
of the Earth no longer sustaining human existence (a habitable
zone), then the physical upheaval of having to abandon the
planet; and finally the memory of life on Earth.
Work Details
Year: 2017
Instrumentation: Viola, piano.
Duration: 23 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: I. Realisation (we have to go) -- II. Earth Abandoned -- III. Memory of life on Earth.
Commission note: Written for the Australian National Academy of Music Low String Sonatas Project
First performance: by Molly Collier-O’Boyle, Liam Wooding at Soundbite (Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)) on 14 Nov 2017
Composer's no. GRT 196.
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Subjects
- In the form/style of: Sonatas
Performances of this work
14 Nov 2017: at Soundbite (Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)). Featuring Molly Collier-O’Boyle, Liam Wooding.
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