| Le Voyage Dans La Lune Orchestre [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
Orchestra SKU: BT.MUSM570366699 Composed by Ed Hughes. Score Only. 62 pag...(+)
Orchestra SKU:
BT.MUSM570366699
Composed by Ed Hughes.
Score Only. 62 pages.
University of York Music
Press #MUSM570366699.
Published by University
of York Music Press
(BT.MUSM570366699).
English. Le
Voyage Dans La Lune is a
continuous orchestral
score of approximately 14
minutes comprising two
outer fast sections and a
slower inner section of a
dream-like character. The
work is directly inspired
by the film Le Voyage
Dans La Lune (1902),
written and directed by
the pioneering French
film-maker, Georges
Méliès. Méliès was
influenced by 19th
century interests in
science and discoveries,
as well as the science
fiction of Jules Verne.
At the same time his work
seems fantastic, surreal
and satirical. Some
critics point out an
underlying critique of
colonial adventuring. The
plot centres on a group
of astronomers who decide
to launch a rocket to the
moon containing a handful
of their number. They
reach the moon (famously
landing on the moon’s
face) and then encounter
a strange race of aliens,
whom they battle and
destroy. The return to
earth involves a dramatic
descent, a plunge into
the ocean and then
celebratory dancing. The
film inhabits a surreal
and dream-like space, and
uses an idiosyncratic
visual language which
transforms reality. This
inspired an active
musical response in my
own score, which is by
turns abrupt, smooth,
lyrical and violent, and
expresses something of
the strange shifting
surfaces and multiple and
layered tempos evident in
the film. The canons in
the horns in the first
scene reflect the intense
arguments of the
astronomers as they
consider the project. The
slower inner section is
inspired by the scenes of
the industrial City
viewed from its rooftops
by the astronomers. It
also expresses the wonder
of the astronomers as
they see the earth rise
from the perspective of
the moon after their
arrival there. The music
of the final section is
in places conflicted,
reflecting the violent
encounters with the
moon’s inhabitants. It
moves into a more
harmonious phase at the
close to match the
celebrations upon the
astronomers’ return
from their adventuring.
The music could be
considered to be a
surreal mini-opera
without voices, voicing
instead the characters of
the silent screen. - Ed
Hughes. $29.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Le Voyage Dans La Lune Orchestre University Of York Music Press
Orchestra SKU: BT.MUSM570366712 Composed by Ed Hughes. Classical. Study S...(+)
Orchestra SKU:
BT.MUSM570366712
Composed by Ed Hughes.
Classical. Study Score.
62 pages. University of
York Music Press
#MUSM570366712. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570366712).
English. Le
Voyage Dans La Lune is a
continuous orchestral
score of approximately 14
minutes comprising two
outer fast sections and a
slower inner section of a
dream-like character. The
work is directly inspired
by the film Le Voyage
Dans La Lune (1902),
written and directed by
the pioneering French
film-maker, Georges
Méliès. Méliès was
influenced by 19th
century interests in
science and discoveries,
as well as the science
fiction of Jules Verne.
At the same time his work
seems fantastic, surreal
and satirical. Some
critics point out an
underlying critique of
colonial adventuring. The
plot centres on a group
of astronomers who decide
to launch a rocket to the
moon containing a handful
of their number. They
reach the moon (famously
landing on the moon’s
face) and then encounter
a strange race of aliens,
whom they battle and
destroy. The return to
earth involves a dramatic
descent, a plunge into
the ocean and then
celebratory dancing. The
film inhabits a surreal
and dream-like space, and
uses an idiosyncratic
visual language which
transforms reality. This
inspired an active
musical response in my
own score, which is by
turns abrupt, smooth,
lyrical and violent, and
expresses something of
the strange shifting
surfaces and multiple and
layered tempos evident in
the film. The canons in
the horns in the first
scene reflect the intense
arguments of the
astronomers as they
consider the project. The
slower inner section is
inspired by the scenes of
the industrial City
viewed from its rooftops
by the astronomers. It
also expresses the wonder
of the astronomers as
they see the earth rise
from the perspective of
the moon after their
arrival there. The music
of the final section is
in places conflicted,
reflecting the violent
encounters with the
moon’s inhabitants. It
moves into a more
harmonious phase at the
close to match the
celebrations upon the
astronomers’ return
from their adventuring.
The music could be
considered to be a
surreal mini-opera
without voices, voicing
instead the characters of
the silent screen. - Ed
Hughes. $27.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Shadowy fish [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Breitkopf & Härtel
Piano Quintet SKU: BR.EB-9399 Hommage a Schubert. Composed by Chri...(+)
Piano Quintet SKU:
BR.EB-9399 Hommage
a Schubert. Composed
by Christian Mason.
Chamber music; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf. Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Score and
parts. Composed 2020. 72
pages. Duration 15'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9399. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9399). ISBN
9790004188736. 9 x 12
inches. One of my
favourite pieces of music
as a child - and I still
love it - was Schubert's
Trout Quintet. It was
partly the wonderful
music, of course, so
light-hearted and joyful
on the surface, yet with
twists and turns and
murky depths of feeling
too. But I also liked the
picture of a trout on the
album sleeve - such
beautiful creatures! Last
year, while resident at
the Villa Concordia in
Bamberg, as I took daily
walks along the Regnitz
river, I observed the
trout as they calmly
hovered and swayed in the
shallows... But if they
felt my shadow they were
gone in a split second!
If you ever get a chance
to look closely at brown
trout you see that they
are covered in myriad
brown/red spots of varied
sizes; camouflage I
suppose. Now those
patterns seem to be
mixing in my mind with
the shifting colours of
the spectral arpeggios
that flow through this
little piece. It's a
watery piece, with
rippling waves,
shimmering surfaces and
textural veils around the
melodies which flow
through it. But it also
takes inspiration (and
it's title) from a Pablo
Neruda poem: the third
stanza of Every Day You
Play includes the line
The sky is a net crammed
with shadowy fish.
There's no singer, but I
imagine an invisible or
imaginary voice somewhere
behind (or beyond) the
music, and so the score
includes a melodic
setting of the text. Even
though this is not
performed by a voice, the
melody is always played
by the ensemble -
especially high register
cello - making the piece
something like the
inverse of a song without
words. (Christian
Mason)
World
premiere:
Aix-en-Provence, October
16, 2020 Commissioned by
the Grand Theatre de
Provence -
Aix-en-Provence. $73.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
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