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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreGuardare, meravigliarsi…Nocturnes 1-5 : for solo piano [eScore] / Jack Symonds.by Jack Symonds (2021)
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Guardare, meravigliarsi… is a collection of five nocturnes, each of which attempts to create the illusion of a multiplicity of layers within a single instrument. The title is from a recurring libretto line and musical figure in Luigi Dallapiccola's major opera Ulisse: "Guardare, meravigliarsi, e tornar a guardare" ('to gaze, to marvel, and to return to gazing"), representing the questing, visionary spirit of Ulysses, as well as being a metaphor for the process of composition itself.
1. Notturno sospeso: a rising figure separates the registers of the keyboard into something like a 'sky' and a 'sea', with a 'suspended' melody poised to dip downwards at any moment.
2. Notturno in riflessione: one single melody is 'reflected' softly into the middle register; a world of mirrors where every figure is sometimes exactly imitated and at others distorted.
3. Notturno ghiacciato: A slow, 3-part canon 'freezes' into a landscape of widely-spaced chords from which tendrils of the opening almost succeed in escaping.
4. Notturno in omaggio: The opening bar of Gabriel Fauré's mysterious final Nocturne slips into a hommage-commentary on Fauré's own pianistic world, before atomising into a wild middle section of keyboard extremes. The return of the Fauré material extinguishes into silence.
5. Notturno corrente: 'Flowing' from one idea to the next, this nocturne takes the material of the other four and creates continuity. Its final slow section is a commentary on the phrase from Dallapiccola, finding an uneasy repose somewhere between his harmonic practice and my own.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (24p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 18 mins
First performance by Anna Fraser, Jack Symonds at Toasting Mother Earth (Adamstown Uniting Church) on 11 Aug 2022
Includes program note.
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