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Vita Nostra

Sheet Music: Performance Parts

Vita Nostra : for orchestra / Christopher Healey.

by Christopher Healey (2022)

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  • Instrumentation: Flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling cor anglais), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), bassoon, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, trombone, tuba, timpani, 2 percussion, harp, celeste (doubling piano), strings.

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This mercurial and exuberant piece was inspired in part by the dark fantasy novel of the same name by Ukrainian authors Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. The title of the book comes from the lyrics of the old Latin student anthem, 'Vita Nostra brevis est, Brevi infiniteur', which translates to 'Our life is brief, it will shortly end'.

The musical language used in this work draws on both traditional and contemporary gestures, including those of the ever-popular film music idiom. All of this has been blended to craft a work that is both fresh and engaging to modern listeners and satisfying and enjoyable for the performers. Full of character changes, from mysterious and macabre to buoyant and optimistic, Vita Nostra is bursting with drama and vitality, and unified by the recurring melodic material that appears throughout.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of performance parts

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 10 min.

Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Cybec Foundation.

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