SATB Choir
SKU:
HL.14011727
Composed
by Pelle
Gudmundsen-holmgreen.
Music Sales America.
Motet. Vocal Score. 60
pages. Music Sales
#KP01211. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14011727).
ISBN
9788759880678.
10.5x14.25x0.52 inches.
Danish.
Pelle
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 's
Four Madrigals From The
Natural World for 6-12
part mixed chorus. This
piece incorporates texts
by Les Murray. ' FOUR
MADRIGALS to texts by the
Australian poet Les
Murray are composed of
two songs (Bats'
Ultrasound and The Octave
of Elephants) written for
the Australian vocal
group THE SONG COMPANY,
and two songs (Cattle
Egret and Comete) from my
larger work SOUND /
SIGHT, written for the
Danish Radio Chamber
Choir, but here arranged
for six voices. The texts
are pictures and
situations from - or
meditations over - THE
NATURAL WORLD. Les
Murray's way of
approaching this world is
not in the least
sentimentalor nostalgic:
the poems reveal a
truebeing-out-there
realism: so basically the
approach is realistic,
but the creating of form
elevates the material to
an abstractplay, a daring
and exuberant poetic
language. These poems
asked to be set to music.
I gave up old
idiosyncrasies regarding
descriptive music, and
surrendered to the
madrigal, with its
special so-called
madrigalisms, which
entails also
animal-imitations. You
will hear this
particulary inThe Octave
of Elephants. ' - Pelle
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.
