Login

Enter your username and password

Forgotten your username or password?

Your Shopping Cart

There are no items in your shopping cart.

  • Home
  • Score: Days and nature
Days and nature

Sheet Music: Score

Days and nature : for ensemble / Kate Moore.

by Kate Moore (2012)

  • Sales Availability: This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.
  • Library Availability: Q 785.3219/MOO 3 — Reference (not for loan) copy only
  • Instrumentation: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in B flat, trombone, tuba, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.

  • Digital Library -- View full score online*

    — Members:
    — Not a member? Become a member online and access the Digital Library immediately

    * This item is not yet in the Digital Library. Members can make an online request which will be reviewed in 2 business days

Non-Commercial

This item is not commercially available from the Australian Music Centre. We regret that we cannot offer it for sale.

Product details

Days and Nature explores the gradual evolution of a growing tree from a sapling to maturity amidst the canopy. This piece was written at Montsalvat artist colony in Melbourne, Australia and features the Zenderkleuring, a sound machine by Hague artist Peter van Loon.The piece suggests a slow and gradual evolution from wilderness to mechanised industry. When living close to nature it becomes apparent that a living eco-system is itself a finely tuned machine where every plant and animal is a vital part keeping it running. The machine is a metaphor for the fragility of nature: a fine balance teetering on the edge of destruction. Machines, including the sound of them, are always in our life. They are so much a part of our soundscape it is sometimes easy to forget they are there at all. It is not until venturing out into the wilderness that we finally remember. Even escaping to the remotest forest, machines are never far away. I have often had the experience of tunnelling deep into the bush to sit very still, if only for a moment, to listen to the sound of nature. In almost every occasion the crackling of dew on the leaves and the burrowing of a distant snake or cry of a bird is invariably interrupted by the distant sound of a car, plane or electric saw. The sound of these mechanisms are so prominent that even when you can see a tiny car on the horizon where a road trails into the distance, the sound of the car carries much further, interrupting the peace like a rude awakening.

Pages: 1 score (96p. -- B4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 20 mins

Commissioned by ASKO/Schonberg with funds provided by Fonds Podiumkunsten.

First performance by ASKO/Schonberg, Etienne Siebens at Donderdagavondserie-PROMS: Trage fries (Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam)) on 12 Apr 2012

Typeset edition.

Related products

This work also exists as the following versions:
- Chamber orchestra

 

- Browse other works for Large chamber ensembles

- Browse other works by Kate Moore

User reviews

Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this item.

To post a comment please login