Soprano voice & piano
SKU: HH.HH583-FSC
Composed by Timothy
Raymond. Full score.
Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH583-FSC.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH583-FSC).
ISBN
9790708185987.
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¬ËœShine Perishing
Republic’ is
perhaps the most
anthologized of all the
works by American poet
Robinson Jeffers
(1887–1962). Its
Whitmanesque tone and
rhetoric are here
reflected in a
sonata-like first
movement form. Influenced
by the paintings of
Jackson Pollock, the
composer wished to
saturate his musical
canvas with explosive,
emotive events.
‘Evening
Ebb’ is a nature
scene. Musical metaphors
– symmetrical
chords, inversion
structures and canons
– are used to to
suggest the qualities of
sea and reflected sky
described so beautifully
in the poem.
Paradoxically, in spite
of these musical
conceits, the music
floats
impressionistically, for
the most part in stasis,
only developing in a
clear direction towards
the end.
