Upon Silence
by Faber Music
Original price
$780TWD
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Original price
$780TWD
Original price
$780TWD
$780TWD
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$780TWD
Current price
$780TWD
Composer: Benjamin, George
Instrument: Mezzo Soprano, Strings
Publisher: Faber Music
Description:
Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings.
Instrument: Mezzo Soprano, Strings
Publisher: Faber Music
Description:
Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings.