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Sheet Music: Scoreonly dust and not a sound : for piano trio / Chris Williams.by Chris Williams (2024)
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The title only dust and not a sound is a fragment of a fragmentary late one-act Beckett play: That Time. Like so much of his writing, it is evocative but deeply ambiguous and seems to combine a sense of beauty with loss as a kind of nostalgia devoid of sentimentality. My own reading of the line is that 'only dust and not a sound' is what remains at the end of a lifetime spent incapable of living in the present moment.
It is about the scary, beautiful, perilous task we all face of trying to find yourself in the present, and the ache of trying to stay there when you feel you cannot. Joyous but defeated, ecstatic but subdued, the line - like so much Beckett - struggles to articulate something that cannot be articulated to produce an almost visceral expression. In many ways, I feel that music is this same beautiful struggle.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (60p. -- B4 (portrait))
Duration: 14 min.
Includes program and performance notes.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-720265-94-0
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