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Sheet Music: ScoreAnon : for string quartet / Anne Cawrse.by Anne Cawrse (2020)
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Anon is the third movement of my string quartet 'A Room of Her Own', a four-movement work that acts as an essay and personal reflection upon the requirements for prosperous creativity. In it, I explore the delicate balance between the realm of the creator and the work being created, taking inspiration from quotes gathered from Virginia Woolf's seminal text 'A Room of One's Own'.
Anon is an investigation of the quote "I would venture to guess that Anon... was often a woman." In the full string quartet, the second movement Epigraph presents, fragments, and then disintegrates themes by Margaret Sutherland, Clara Schumann, and Rebecca Clarke. Anon knits them back together again in a quasi-Sonata form- a musical form historically considered to belong to 'serious' music, and thus the domain of men. The music is stubborn and persistent, bordering on aggressive and hostile, but also tender, bittersweet, and startingly alive.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (30p. -- A4 (portrait))
Duration: 8 mins, 30 sec.
Commissioned by Elder Conservatorium of Music for performance by Australian String Quartet with funds provided by John Bishop Memorial Commission.
First performance by Australian String Quartet — 17 Oct 20.
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ISMN: 979-0-67316-306-5
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