Organ
SKU:
SU.80101403
For
Organ. Composed by
Carson Cooman. Keyboard,
Organ. Score. Zimbel
Press #80101403.
Published by Zimbel Press
(SU.80101403).
Symphony for
Organ (2013) is cast as a
dramatic progression from
darkness into light. The
first movement, Masque,
is extremely violent and
bleak. The title is used
with a touch of
irony--for this is not a
masque of courtly
diversion, but rather a
furious struggle against
the darkness, played out
in a series of dramatic
episodes following a
Tudor-era formal design.
The ending builds to a
dramatic peak, and leaves
us in shell-shocked
silence. The second
movement, Sarabande,
begins quietly and
mournfully, and gradually
gains in fervency. A
faster middle section is
a spinning dance before
the return of the opening
music. In the coda, the
light gradually
approaches. The third
movement, Chorale, evokes
the colors of a new dawn.
The music of the first
movement's struggle
gradually becomes washed
in the blaze of morning.
Instrumentation: Organ
Duration: 21' Composed:
2013 Published by: Zimbel
Press.
Darkness into Light
