Mixed Choir [STbarB] and
Orchestra - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14043756
Composed by Sunleif
Rasmussen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2015.
202 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH32702.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14043756).
ISBN
9788759836620.
English.
Commission
ed by John Storgards,
Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra and Nordic
House in the Faroe
Islands. Dedicated to the
composers daughter Malan.
Preface / Programme note:
From the Edda verse 31
Three roots there are
that three ways run Neath
the ash-tree Yggdrasil,
Neath the first lives
Hel, neath the second the
frost-giants, Neath the
last are the lands of
men. The idea behind the
Symphony is the story of
Yggdrasil, The Tree of
Life, from the Old Norse
mythology. The Ash-tree
reaches all the way into
the sky and has three
roots, each growing into
three different places.
One root grows into the
Land of Hel (Hel is the
goddess of Hell), called
Helheim, another into
theLand of Frost-Giants,
called Jotunheim, and one
root grows into the Land
of men, called Asgard.
And the Ash-tree reaches
into the sky. In the
crown of the tree lives a
squirrel, which moves
fast around the tree and
spreads gossip, both
between the three roots
and between three roots
and the crown of the
tree.The Edda is a large
collection of Old Norse
poems, collected in the
12th Century by the
Icelandic poet and
historian Snorri
Sturluson. Sunleif
Rasmussen, March
2015.
Sky Giants
