Sheet Music: ScoreString quartet no. 1 : Time's arrow / Stuart Greenbaum.by Stuart Greenbaum (1991)
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String Quartet No.1 (Time's
Arrow) was commissioned by the A.N.A. Friendly Society and
premiered in November of 1991. The subtitle, Time's Arrow, is taken from
a novel of the same name by Martin Amis and was added after the
work had been completed. The novel represents the story of a life
told backwards (from death to birth), a similarity I found in the
structure of my quartet.
The work is in 4 short movements
and based around two themes. The first movement opens with a
theme that represents experience or memory. The movement
concludes with a second theme (in natural harmonics) which
represents innocence. This second theme is coincidentally quite
similar to the nursery rhyme,Twinkle
Twinkle Little Star.
The inner movements
further develop the first theme and represent the external
journey and then the floating timelessness of emotional
involvement. The final movement returns to the idea of the
journey but in a rapid, compressed state - like a life flashing
before one's eyes - culminating in a reprise of the second
theme.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (30p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 13 mins
Commissioned by A.N.A. Friendly Society.
First performance by John Pokorny, John North, Rosia Choate, Joy Fletcher — 5 Nov 91. Wesley Church, Lonsdale St. Melbourne Members of the MSO
Composer's no.: GRT 014.
Includes program note and performance directions.
Revised July 2016
Typeset edition.
This edition produced 27 Jul 16.
ISMN: 9790900974808
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