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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreThe face of nature : for soprano and ensemble [eScore] / by Elliott Gyger ; text from 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin.by Elliott Gyger (2009)
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The opening movement of The Origin Cycle, setting words from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. When the natural world is viewed at a distance, it appears orderly, bountiful and even harmonious; but this order and balance is the composite result of countless acts of violence and destruction - like a "yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together". My musical setting attempts to create an analogous musical metaphor, in a texture which appears to shift perspective between sonorous lushness and percussive, pointillist fragmentation.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (43p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 8 mins
First performance by Jane Sheldon, Firebird Ensemble, Jeffrey Means — 8 Apr 09. Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge MA, USA
Includes performance notes and the text.
Typeset edition.
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