Sheet Music: Performance Parts
a luminous moment, unfolded : for string quartet / Chris Perren
by Chris Perren (2017)
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- Instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, cello.
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We think of a single moment as something small, but somehow, it
contains the whole world in it. Everything we've ever seen,
heard, thought, felt, is brought to bear upon it, and countered
by the influx of our senses. And the light of the furthest stars
is thousands of years old by the time we see it. If you could
slice out a single moment, like a sort of cross-section of time,
what great complexity of ingredients would it hold?
This piece is an imaginary study of such a cross-section: a
moment of great joy, folded out and dissected. In the middle
somewhere, happiness, hope, ecstasy. But also, lurking at the
perimeter, the memory of suffering that makes joy possible; and
the knowledge that it won't yield to your grasp.
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions,
that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all
there is." - Alan Watts
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 4 performance parts (33p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Rhythmically challenging
Duration: 10 min.
Commissioned by Argo.
First performance by Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra at Argo: TO THE EARTH (Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane) on 8 Jul 2017
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