Oboe, Clarinet, Viola, Harp and Percussion SKU: BT.MUSM570207770 Composed...(+)
Oboe, Clarinet, Viola,
Harp and Percussion
SKU:
BT.MUSM570207770
Composed by Anne Boyd.
Set (Score & Parts). 12
pages. University of York
Music Press
#MUSM570207770. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570207770).
English.
Anne
Boyd 's The Quiet Place
for Oboe (doubling
antique cymbals),
Clarinet (doubling rin),
Viola and Harp. The Quiet
Place was commissioned by
the Warwick and
Leamington Festival for
performance by Okeanos on
their New Music Day on
14th July 2002. The Quiet
Place is a meditation
site in the University of
York dedicated by Dame
Janet Baker In honour of
the spirituality which is
in all people. It was a
place I visited
frequently in the months
I spent as visiting
Professor at the
University in late 2001.
So soon after the attack
on the New York Trade
Centre, the world felt a
very unstable place,
especially to be so far
from my Australian home.
It was difficult to make
much senseof existence in
a world of fanatical
fundamentalism - both
Islamic and Christian.
Perhaps for comfort, I
found myself thinking
back a thousand years to
the vital earth based
spirituality of Hildegard
of Bingen and uncovered
an Antiphon she had
composed, 'Nunc Aperuit'.
This chant became the
basis of the work I have
written for Okeanos in
response to an invitation
from Jinny Shaw whom I
met in York last year. In
English translation the
words of the chant
translate as Now the
closed door has opened
for us, / What the
serpent has suffocated in
woman./ Therefore shines
forth in the dawn/ the
flower from the Virgin
Mary. The music of The
Quiet Place is a simple
meditation which explores
the moods of this text
often retreating into a
silence which is both
breath and transcendence.
- Anne Boyd.
