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Sheet Music: ScorePetit testament / Elliott Gygerby Elliott Gyger (2008)
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'Petit Testament', the last of the Ern Malley poems, is intimate
and autobiographical in tone, at times veering perilously close
to confessing the bogus nature of the author's identity. My
setting re-enacts James McAuley's and Harold Stewart's dazzling
feat of ventriloquism (two real poets masquerading as one
fictional poet) in employing two voices to project a single
musical line, slipping unpredictably between unison, heterophony
and interior dialogue. The pitch material is derived from musical
ciphers of the three poets' names. Coincidentally, my cipher for
"Ern Malley" - spelled out by the harp at the very beginning -
uses only the notes of a pentatonic scale (Pelog) strongly
associated with
Indonesian gamelan music, a common trope in the self-conscious
quest for Australian musical identity in the 1960s and 1970s.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (24p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 9 mins
First performance by Halcyon — 1 Sep 09. The Mint, Sydney
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-67309-792-6
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