String Quartet
SKU:
IG.IMF1824
Composed
by Daniel Baldwin. Score
and Parts. Imagine Music
Publishing #IMF1824.
Published by Imagine
Music Publishing
(IG.IMF1824).
9 x 12
inches.
Written for
my first doctoral
recital, Celestial
Harmonies was a fun
exercise in
experimentation. I
approached another
graduate student, Allen
Morris, about taking high
quality photographs of
each of the
constellations, which he
did between Thanksgiving
and New Year's Eve in
2013. Upon receiving
these photographs, I had
staff paper printed on
transparency paper and
placed the constellation
photos beneath the
transparency paper and
traced out the
constellations on the
staff paper. These became
the introductory sketches
for this new string
quartet. Like a solitary
photographer gazing up at
the night sky, the music
is quiet and intimate,
but reflects the drama
and wonderment of this
wonderous phenomenon.
