Score
Oriel : for string orchestra / Katharine Parton.
Library shelf no. 784.7/PAR 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
The first sketches for Oriel were written in an oriel
window in Cambridge, England. An oriel window is a type of bay
window which projects outwards from a building's wall. When
sitting in the window you are both outside the walls of the
building but also fully contained by the glass of the window. You
are not outdoors but you are not completely indoors. You can be
seen by people inside the walls but you can also be viewed by
those outside. In an oriel space you can feel part of two worlds
but you can also feel part of neither.
This piece is about that space between two places: a moment
between one world and the next where neither is necessarily
completely tangible but both are experienced. It is about feeling
apart from others while sharing a space or feeling together with
others even though there seems to be a barrier between you. The
musical writing is deliberately conversational with melodic
material weaving between parts drawing the players together and
then moving them apart again.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: Strings.
Duration: 4 min.
Difficulty: Medium
First performance: by Frankston Symphony Orchestra — 2022.
Performances of this work
2022: featuring Frankston Symphony Orchestra.
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