Head of Orpheus: Score & Parts - Couverture souple

9780571553112: Head of Orpheus: Score & Parts

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571553117 ISBN 13 : 9780571553112

Editeur : Faber Music Ltd, 1997

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Nicholas Maw’s The Head of Orpheus (1992) is a 6-minute setting of a poem by the American poet Robert Kelly for high voice and two clarinets. Written for Mary Wiegold and the Composers Ensemble, the score is prefaced by a chord from Act III Scene 4 of Berg’s Wozzeck and it is this source that provides the work with much of its harmonic and melodic material. Like Orpheus himself the vocal line wanders in an almost detached manner around the predominantly arabesque-like clarinet lines (the Maenads of the myth), lending to the work a further dramatic level. Following a return to the opening clarinet material, an almost disinterested parlando passage for voice brings the work to a sudden close.

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