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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: Score & Part(s)Almanac of Endings : a journal for violin and cello [eScore] / Jack Symonds.by Jack Symonds (2015)
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This duo is laid out in two large parts: opposite in intent, affect and construction, but identical in material.
Part One consists of fourteen miniature movements, each potentially the ending of a larger work. They synecdochically create a landscape of constantly shifting emphasis, suggesting worlds far larger than their brief span. Three movements are Breaths: soft, isolated gestures depicting the body's natural state. Two movements are Inarguable: a tough, hocketing tussle between the instruments, neither giving way. There are also two Frustrations: each gesture stymied and cauterised before being allowed to bloom, as well as two Seances: woozy, fevered dreams reaching hysterical climaxes of extreme registers. There is a tense, slow Requiem (perhaps for Luigi Nono) and its echo, and three movements inspired by operas by Hans Werner Henze: a dance for the eponymous bird of his late l'Upupa, a window into the dreams of his teenage anti-hero in Gogo no eiko, and a picture of the elusive Edelweiss flower atop the mountain in Elegy for Young Lovers.
Part Two is a single, through-composed movement synthesising all the material of the above, and representing a possible world in which all the different fragments may coexist. It is largely fast and rhythmic, and expands beyond the harmonic constrictions of Part One to produce counterpoint and a rigorous dialogue for the players. It eventually breaks itself down into its constituent parts and produces an open ending, perhaps for a whole new cycle to begin.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score 26p. -- A4 (landscape)) and 1 part (18p. -- A4 (landscape))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 15 mins
Part One: Breath (1) -- Inarguable (1) -- Breath (2) -- Frustration (1) -- Seance (1) -- Upupas Tanz -- A little Requiem -- Epilogue to a Requiem -- Inarguable (2) -- Dreamsong -- Frustration (2) -- Seance (2) -- Cold Mountain Flower -- Breath (3) -- Part Two: Allegro energico.
Commissioned by Affinity Collective.
First performance by Affinity Collective — 27 Nov 15. ANAM, VIC
This performance set contains 1 part for the violin and 1 score for the cello.
Includes programme notes and performance directions.
Typeset edition.
This edition produced 12 Jul 16.
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