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Score	L'Abbraccio della Rinascita : for bass flute / Katia Tiutiunnik. 1 facsimile score (3p. -- A4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre — 2018 Library shelf no. 788.34/TIU 4	Solo Bass Flute	Available for loan	$POA
Score	L'Abbraccio della Rinascita : for contrabass flute / Katia Tiutiunnik. 1 facsimile score (3p. -- A4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre — 2018 Library shelf no. 788.34/TIU 5	Solo contrabass flute	Available for loan	$POA
Score	L'Abbraccio della Rinascita : for flute / Katia Tiutiunnik. 1 facsimile score (3p. -- A4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre — 2020 Library shelf no. 788.32/TIU 3	Solo Flute	Available for loan	$POA
CD	Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 124. 1 CD (65 min.) Library shelf no. CD 3165	Solo Flute	Available for loan	Non-Commercial

Work Overview

L'Abbraccio della Rinascita for flute is a varied transcription of the second work of my 2006 cycle for solo violoncello, 'Who is like God?', entitled 'Embracing Dumuzi'. As such, like 'Who is like God?: (ii) Embracing Dumuzi', L'Abbraccio della Rinascita is intended as a musical portrayal of my spiritual embrace and invocation of the Sumerian god, Dumuzi, the most ancient personification of the eternal cycle of life, death, destruction and renewal. In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzi is portrayed as a beautiful, innocently self-centred youth who dies and rises again, bringing both destruction and renewal with the turn of the seasons. Dumuzi also embraces the roles of priest, king and husband of the great Sumerian goddess of love, war and enlightenment, Inanna. He is the quickener of the child, the force that causes the sap to rise in the tree and a deity of fertility, vegetation and the netherworld. Dumuzi has also been called 'the Shepherd' and 'lord of the sheepfolds'. In the Sumerian King-List, Gilgamesh was descended from 'Dumuzi a shepherd. The musical material of L'Abbraccio della Rinascita encompasses melodies inspired by both the Arab and Jewish traditions, in addition to fragments intended to evoke my conception of ancient Sumerian music.

Work Details

Year: 2018

Duration: 2-4 min.

The composer notes the following styles, subjects, genres etc, associated with this work:
Spiritual and Sacred Music; Mesopotamian Mythology; Jewish Music; Arab Music