Score & Part [ePDF]
Still the Light Burns, op. 15a : for violin and piano [eScore] / Jack Symonds.
Score & Part
Still the Light Burns, op. 15a : for violin and piano / Jack Symonds.
Library shelf no. 787.2/SYM 2 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Still the Light Burns is a series of interrelated movements dealing with music from my opera Climbing Toward Midnight. The title is taken from a line by the Expressionist poet Georg Trakl that forms the central dramatic panel in Act II of the opera. The musical phrase Kundry sings- "O how still the light burns"- forms the basis for all the movements' variations whether sobbing, singing, flying or in various states of canon.
Work Details
Year: 2012
Instrumentation: Violin, piano.
Duration: 9 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: I. Preludio -- II. Hoquetus piangere -- III. (a) Canone rilassato -- IV. Cantabile instabile -- III. (b) Canone energico -- V. In volo luminoso.
Dedication note: Dedicated to Doretta Balkizas
Commission note: Commissioned by Doretta Balkizas.
First performance: 4 May 13. Rocks Windmill, Sydney
Performances of this work
4 May 13: Rocks Windmill, Sydney
User reviews
Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.
To post a comment please login.