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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreReleasing the Marble : trio for flutes, double bass and percussion [eScore] / Jack Symonds.by Jack Symonds (2026)
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Michelangelo believed that the process of sculpting was one of 'releasing' the final form of the sculpture from the block of marble. The idea that the finished work (or a version of it) is already implicit in the most 'unformed' of materials is irresistible to a composer; music can be gradually unveiled ('released') in its medium: time, through its primary process: development. (Wolfgang Rihm might call this the 'hunt' for form; the work discovering itself 'in real time' as it progresses along with the listener's perception of it).
In this trio, after a brief introduction (perhaps an image of 'the will to create'), the first section is a hectic, headlong churn of simple, deliberately 'unformed' musical ideas turned over and over until finding continuity. Brief sostenuto windows into a potential 'finished work' are glimpsed, waxing longer and more developmentally sophisticated and lyrical until they become the work.
This content is all a reflection on my Michelangelo song cycles, "I keep your burning glances" and "In Stone", and could form a prelude or interlude between these large settings of Michelangelo's poetry.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (24p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Virtuosic writing for all performers
Duration: 8 mins
Includes program and performance notes.
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