Score
Fractured Peace : for string quartet / Naomi Brown.
Library shelf no. 785.714/BRO 3 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Written for the Flinders Quartet as a response to Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, this quartet integrates two themes of Beethoven's. The first is the opening theme from his Grosse Fugue fragmented into its pairs of semitones (which I've called the fractured theme) and the second is the melody from the prayer for communal peace from the last movement of his Missa Solemnis (which I've called the peace theme). The latin phrase sung to that melody is dona nobis pacem (which in English means grant us peace).
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