Electric guitar, 2 violas
and cello
SKU:
HL.49041657
For
electric guitar, 2 violas
and cello. Composed
by Gavin Bryars. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score.
Composed 1990. 16 pages.
Duration 16'. Schott
Music #ED13275. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49041657).
ISBN
9790220133145. UPC:
841886022140.
9.0x12.0x0.068
inches.
I had
written the Cadman
Requiem in 1989 for the
Hilliard Ensemble in
memory of my friend and
sound engineer Bill
Cadman, who was killed in
the Lockerbie air crash.
His death affected me
very deeply and, pending
a recording of this
piece, Manfred Eicher
asked if I might like to
develop an instrumental
work from this, using the
same instrumentation for
accompaniment and
retaining the same
opening bars as part of a
new ECM album. The piece
is after the Requiem
therefore in the musical
sense of being based on
it, in the chronological
sense of following on
from it, and in the
spiritual sense of
representing that state
which remains after
mourning is (technically)
over. I wrote the piece
in Venice in September
1990 and finished it in
Oslo on the day of the
recording, where I added
the electric guitar of
Bill Frisell. This, I
felt, blended
particularly well with
low strings (2 violas and
cello). Coincidentally,
having used certain
distortion effects on the
guitar, we found that we
were recording on the
twentieth anniversary of
the death of Jimi
Hendrix. Within the music
I use one or two modified
extracts from the Cadman
Requiem itself, and from
its common source
Invention of Tradition,
for which Bill Cadman had
done the sound design.The
piece is dedicated to the
two Bills (Cadman and
Frisell).
15 Inventions - Violin and Cello
