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Painting by Magritte

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A Painting by Magritte : for solo harp / Ian Whitney.

by Ian Whitney (2017)

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  • Instrumentation: Harp.
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    Performance by Alice Giles from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 120.

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I have long been a fan of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, and the way his paintings can take common objects (a pipe, an apple) and turn them into an image of quirky unease. There is something that is often both comical and unsettling in his work.

This piece is a response to one painting in particular, Golconda, currently in Houston's Menil Collection. This well known landscape presents a sky filled with mathematically spaced men in black overcoats and bowler hats against a bland urban backdrop. It's not clear whether the men are falling from the sky, rising from the earth or are suspended in space. This confusion of motion seemed, to me, to be particularly sympathetic to the harp. Apart from perhaps piano, and some percussion, I can think of few instruments where physical motion is so visually connected to the sound as the harp- the sheer expanse of the instrument necessitates it. Throughout the piece, I have considered the direction of travel much like the men in the painting- up, down, paused. I've also sought to capture some of the unease and liminality of Magritte- at times oppressively so.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (11p. -- B4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 10 mins

Dedicated to Alice Giles

First performance by Alice Giles at Forgotten (National Portrait Gallery) on 31 Aug 2017

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ISMN: 979-0-67311-836-2

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