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Sheet Music: ScoreLinks : for a cappella SATB choir / Matthew Orlovich.by Matthew Orlovich (2000)
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The work is a setting of John Kinsella's poem "Links". Born in
1963, John Kinsella grew up in Perth, Western Australia. He
attended high school in suburban Perth and, for three years, a
country high school (Geraldton Senior High) before studying Arts
and History at the University of Western Australia. With his
family, he maintained close ties with the pioneering farming
areas to the west of Perth. Over a short span of years, his
writings have quickly brought him to international prominence and
he has many major literary awards and prizes to his credit. John
Kinsella is currently a Fellow at Churchill College,
Cambridge.
When selecting text to set to music, I try to seek out poetry
which is immediately captivating, yet timelessly intriguing. John
Kinsella's "Links" reflects on an environment of fascinating
beauty and austerity; a place where "the world buckles under the
sun", where birds "fly deep into desert" and where "sand becomes
an
astrolabe to the stars".
Throughout my setting of the poem, I call upon some varied
musical ideas: lively, syncopated music, uninhibited singing of
chant-like rhythms, drifting melodies against spinning harmonies,
drones which stretch across the scene like long telegraph wires,
and sounds of crackling embers and flooding waters.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (33p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 15 mins
Includes programme note, text of poem, performance directions and brief biographical notes on composer.
Text from poem 'Links' by John Kinsella.
Typeset edition.
This edition produced Nov 13.
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