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Two Sirens : for two piano players four hands one piano
by Natalya Vagner (2025, this version: 2024)
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Two Sirens : for two piano players four hands one piano / Natalya Vagner.
Library shelf no. 785.62121/VAG 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Two Sirens are mythological creatures that comes from ancient Greek.
They are humanlike beings with half-birds, half beautiful maidens, who tempt sailors with their alluring voices and play on 'lute' instruments to their doom.
Sirens were used as a symbol for the dangerous temptation embodied by women regularly throughout Christian art of the medieval era.
They appear in a scene in Homer's 'Odyssey' in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives. It was Apollonius of Rhodes in Argonautica (3rd century BC) who described sirens in writing as part woman and part bird.
Two piano players are to imitate the character of 'Sirens' in music playing.
'Strumming' on a lute like (but on strings of the piano) and
beautiful mesmerising melodies ('Sirens' tunes) in a
juxtaposition together with dark rhythmical and intriguing
sections in music, as a reminder of a danger and temptation that
'Siren's bring with them.
Two Sirens inspired by John William Waterhouse painting
(1900) 'Ulysses and the Sirens'. Its an attempt to combine
experimental elements of music together with theatre.
Work Details
Year: 2025, this version: 2024
Instrumentation: Piano.
Duration: 9 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
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Subjects
- Inspired by: Visual Arts
- Inspired by: Mythology
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