the under-side of green (score)
Composer: Rebecca Saunders
Publisher: Peters
$60.00
| Movement/Section | Duration: 8 |
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This edition consists of one performing score.
From the composer:
' "At this juncture we ought to say something about lights and colours. It is evident that colours vary according to light, as every colour appears different when in shade, and placed under rays of light. Shade makes a colour dimmer, and light makes it brighter and clear. Colour is swallowed by the dark."
Loeon Battista Alberti: On painting (1435)"Emerald, Ruby, Jacinth, Chalcedony, Jasper. Colour, like these jewels, is precious. Even more precious, it cannot be possessed. Colour slips through the fingers and escapes. You can't lock it in a jewel box as it vanishes in the dark."
Derek Jarman: Chroma (1994)the underside of green, CRIMSON – Molly's Song 1 (1995) and Molly's Song 3 – shades of crimson (1996) make up a cycle of compositions that were influenced by Molly Bloom's closing monologue in James Joyce's Ulysses. This relentless and intense monologue flows unpunctuated for 35 pages:
"...and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and ...yes ..." '
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Pages:
Pages (score): 13
Publisher Code: EP7503
UPC: 9790577001791
ISBN:
ISMN: 9790577001791
Length: 43.1 cm
Width: 28.4 cm
Thickness: 1.094 cm
Weight: 174 g
