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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreBower : for solo sanjo gayageum in F [eScore] / music by Bruce Crossman ; words by Kate Fagan.by Bruce Crossman (2022)
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Bower: Keobeu Nolae, the latter part meaning "curving song" in Korean, is
inspired by Kate Fagan's poem "Bower" about the curving sonic
beauty of bowerbirds in nature as a type of natural retreat
within East Coast Australian bush touching eternity, away from
the negative in life.
In this sense the structure is a type of parabola curve moving
symmetrically from stillness accruing to frantic bluesy movement
of multiple motifs, before falling back to stillness. Formally,
the structure is viewed as: A B A' B' C [a' b' c] B'' A''.
It's content uses various nonghyeon bending techniques of the
gayageum with string pressing techniques on chords and
appoggiatura notes, arpeggios, and alternating patterns at the
climax, with more distilled sounds flanking this through bellbird
like harmonics woven amidst Korean Buddhist Temple bowl
resonances and Judeo-Christian glossolalia-prayerful chanting-to
suggest the eternal, whilst fragments of the bowerbird poem are
whispered as a type of nesting thread throughout the music.
The music becomes a sonic nest with symbols of spirit amidst
glistening nonghyeon colour changes to suggest the curving song
of nature.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (9p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced — Complex rhythmic detail and changing colour nuances
Duration: 10 mins, 1 sec.
Includes program and performance notes.
Includes full text.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc:
Free jazz, Matthew Shipp Trio; Korean gayageum sanjo performance by Yi Jiyoung and Lee Eonhwa; Judeo-Christian glossolalia and Kate Fagan’s poetic ideas on ecology; Japanese Gagaku and Honkyoku.
Typeset edition.
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