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Sheet Music: ScoreDe Rerum Natura : for voice and chamber ensemble / Peter McNamara.by Peter McNamara (2020)
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De Rerum Natura is a 6-part song cycle setting portions of Titus Lucretius Carus' same-titled 6-volume ancient Latin literary work, completed in c. 55 BC. De Rerum Natura can be translated as The Nature of Things, and is a sophisticated didactic text explaining the world around us, consisting of poetry, prose and scientific theory of the antiquity. Lucretius outlines the flaws as he sees them in ancient religion, that the souls of men are mortal, that the world consists of infinite fine particles, the senses of the body, the formation of the universe, and in conclusion, a graphic and apocalyptic description of the 430-27 BC Athens plague.
The six movements of De Rerum Natura, are divided into two related groups of three movements (1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6). The first song predominantly incorporates Mediaeval influenced musical material with a flowing rhythmic character, while the second is influenced by ancient Greek musical material and is much more rhythmically driven and tense. The fourth song is related to the first harmonically, but with the tense and rhythmically driven character of the second. The fifth song meanwhile is related to the second harmonically, but with the flowing character of the first. The third and sixth songs are also closely related by way of their rhythmically free and semi-improvised character, creating two related yet contrasting overall divisions of the song cycle.
Published by: Wirripang [979 0 720271 69 3] — 1 score (105p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 45 min.
Liber Primus -- Liber Secundus -- Liber Tertius -- Liber Quartus -- Liber Quintus -- Liber Sextus.
First performance at Sideband: Renaissance (Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music) on 17 Sep 2019
Includes programme notes, performance instructions, and copy of full Latin text with translation into English.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Classical Latin, ancient Greek music.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979 0 720271 69 3
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