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Sheet Music: Performance PartsBright Confusions : for solo violin and strings / Gordon Kerry.by Gordon Kerry (2020)
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'Its silver stridencies of sound,
the bright confusions and the round
bell-cadences are pealed
over the frosty, half-ploughed field'.
- From Magpie by James McAuley
This work draws inspiration from the songs of the Australian magpie, whose Linnaean name, Gymnorhina tibicen recalls the ancient Greek and Roman reed instrument, the aulos or tibia.
There are some moments in the piece where the soloist imitates certain sounds that we humans can hear of the magpie's song, but I also used computer software to slow down and lower the pitch of the songs, and extracted and developed melodic shapes and rhythmic patterns from them.
The piece can be accompanied by either string quartet or string orchestra, and if by a quartet naturally the double bass is omitted, and the (solo) and (tutti) directions ignored.
If played by an orchestra the double-stopping may if necessary be treated as 1st and 2nd lines.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 6 performance parts (41p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 13 mins
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