Guitar and Chamber
Ensemble
SKU:
HL.14028004
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. 40 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30178.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028004).
ISBN
9788759860984.
12.0x16.5x0.438
inches.
Full score
for this work for Guitar
and Small Ensemble.
Ruders writes: The word
has its origin in ancient
Greek: Psalmoidia i.e.
'singing to the harp',
and we find the word
again in Psalter, derived
from Psallein 'playing
the strings with the
fingers'. 'Psalmodies'
written for and dedicated
to David Starobin, has no
specific religious
content or aim; the
collection of eleven
pieces forms a
concert-suite, displaying
a wide range of emotions;
from the jubilant to the
dismal, the guitar
playing the natural
leading part 'inside' a
chorus of woodwinds and
strings. The title and
each movement mirrors the
variety of moods, from
the secular feast of A
Fanfare for All to the
sacred introversion of A
Prayer with Halo.
'Psalmodies' opens with a
guitar-solo and closes
down with one: the
rejoicing Entrance for
One and the hushed,
melancholy Exit for One,
thus exemplifying the
emotional compass, which
I, in an essay on my
first symphony;
'Himmelhoch Jauchsend-zum
Tode betrubt' entitle: Of
Joy and Grief. Of Worship
and Oblivion.
Halo Feast
