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Sheet Music: ScoreA church made of glass : for three singers and three players / music by Elliott Gyger ; words by Peter Carey.by Elliott Gyger (2017)
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The glass church which is a central image of Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda is described within the novel as an idea with a force of its own. This assessment is one the book's readers share with its characters; both groups are captivated by the combination of surreal beauty, mad impracticality and doomed fragility. In this work I have disentangled the church from its intricate role in the lives of the novel's human protagonists, choosing passages which focus on its own narrative arc - from conception, through the mechanics of construction and transportation, to completion, deterioration and annihilation. My musical setting mirrors the baroque contrivance of the church itself, using the model of an eighteenth-century cantata in highly compressed form: nine brief sections, with textures suggesting recitative, contrapuntal duet, fugal chorus, chorale, and aria with instrumental obbligato, tumble over one another in the space of about 11 minutes.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (45p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 11 mins
First performance at Resonant Bodies (Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon) on 5 May 2017
Includes performance notes and lyrics.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-720207-77-3
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