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Barren grounds : for Bb clarinet, viola, cello and piano / Andrew Schultz.
by Andrew Schultz (1988)
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- Instrumentation: B flat clarinet, viola, cello, piano.
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On the Illawarra escarpment overlooking the sea, Barren Grounds is a wilderness reserve and bird breeding area. With a strange and otherworldly landscape - stunted growth and marshy ground - the place feels still, yet the barren, eerie surface conceals a fecund underlife. For me, the place occupies a state of mind; this, rather than any programmatic intention, prompted the title.
Movement 1, is a slow, lyrical and sinewy reworking of a vocal piece, Seafarer whose final line: "And learn to sleep upon this ground", with its reference to mortality, suggested the passacaglia form used.
Paul Klee's ornithological automaton painting, The Twittering Machine gives Movement 2 its inspiration. The musical intention at times resembles an ungainly machine that keeps running awry and needs to be wound-up again. Spinning out rhythmic fragments and employing mosaic technique are recurrent preoccupations.
Perihelion commissioned the work with funding from the Performing Arts Board, Australia Council.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (39p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced/professional.
Duration: 16 mins
I. ...this ground -- II. The twittering machine.
Commissioned by Perihelion with funds provided by Australia Council. Performing Arts Board.
First performance by Perihelion — 27 Oct 88. University of Queensland
Includes performance notes.
Version for clarinet, violin cello and piano is titled Barren grounds 2.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: M-67300-981-3
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