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Ghosts of Galicia

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Ghosts of Galicia : for violin, clarinet, cello and piano / Charles Bodman Rae.

by Charles Bodman Rae (2012)

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Ghosts of Galicia is in three movements - Prelude, Interlude, and Postlude - which aim in different ways to evoke the eerie emptiness of the abandoned or cleared villages of Central Europe. Many of these vanished village communities were Jewish shtels cleared during the Shoa; but others in Romania were cleared during the brutal regime of Ceaucescu. There are allusions to Jewish musical traditions, including klezmer and cantillation, but there are other, non-Jewish allusions. Most of these are conveyed through original materials, but there are two pieces of quoted music: 'Undzer Shtel brent' (Our shtel is burning), by Mordechai Gebirtig; and the final song of Schubert's Winterreise, Der Leiermann (the hurdy-gurdy man). The refrain of Gebirtig's song is borrowed and enhanced in the Interlude and returns near the end of the Postlude. The Postlude takes its main motif and mood from the Schubert song where the poet is leaving an unnamed central European village and passes an old man repeating a haunting tune on his hurdy-gurdy, much as a Buddhist mantra is repeated by the spinning of a prayer wheel.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (21p. -- A3 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 12 mins

Contents note:

I. Prelude -- II. Interlude -- III. Postlude.

Dedicated to Gabriella Smart, Soundstream Collective

Commissioned by Gabriella Smart, Soundstream Collective.

First performance by Soundstream Collective, Elizabeth Layton, Peter Handsworth, Ewen Bramble, Gabriella Smart — 29 Jul 12. Soundstream 2012 Season, Elder Hall, Adelaide

Includes programme notes and performance notes.

Typeset edition.

ISMN: 979-0-720128-72-6

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