Flute, clarinet - Level 5
SKU: BA.BA11060
Composed by Dieter
Ammann. In a folder.
Performance score.
Composed 2011. 14/4
pages. Duration 12 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11060_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11060).
ISBN
9790006559022. 42 x 29.5
cm inches.
... she
stood leering hideously,
and much dust sodden with
tears lay upon her
shoulders.
These
snippets from Johann
Heinrich Voss's
translation of Hesiod's
Shield of Hercules, where
the din of battle is
brought to a standstill
for the wink of an eye,
made me think of music
that describes the
'inwardness' of a
particular feeling, close
to the much-cited
metaphor of an entire
life flitting past the
inner eye in the space of
a second, when, as in
Hesiod, Atropos severs
the thread of life. Viola
and piano join forces on
an equal basis to
inscribe ever more lines
and shapes which,
however, relate in their
inmost essence to
intertwining circles
laden with
melancholy.
(Philipp
Maintz)