Cello
SKU:
HL.14010200
For
Solo Cello. Composed
by Brian Elias. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. With Text
language: English.
Chester Music #CH88180.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14010200).
UPC:
884088837112.
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œElutropia is a Gemme,
in colour greene, or
grassie, in part coloured
and bespotted with Purple
speckes & bloud
coloures vaines. This is
a marvellous Jugler, for
it will cause things
object to be presented to
our eies as it listeth.
It being put into a Basan
of water chaungeth to a
mans eyesight the Sunne
his beames, and giveth
them a contrarie colour.
Being also moved and
beaten in the ayre maketh
to appeare a bloudie
Sunne, and darkneth the
ayre in the maner of an
Eclipse: and therfore it
is called Eloutropia as
you would say, the Sunne
his enimie. There is of
this name also a certain
Hearbe which Enchaunters
& Witches have
oftentimes used and doe
use, as also that above
said, whereby they have
mocked and deluded many,
which by meanes and
working and enchauntment,
have so dazzled the
beholders eies, that they
have gone by them
invisibly.†John
Maplet (died 1592) A
greene forest, or A
natural historie 1567
This text from the
clergyman, astrologer and
natural historian John
Maplet's fascinating work
in which he describes the
properties of various
gemstones is the
inspiration for this
piece. Without being
programmatic, the music
is constantly developed
to try and mimic the way
the shafts of light
mutate through the gem,
and the illusions and
magic they create.
