Crown of Violets - Concert Band
Catalog: W-741
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"I have always loved the feeling of bittersweet, and this poem (my favorite of the Sappho Fragments), captures that feeling extremely well. The translation by Anne Carson is the one that I used to create this piece. The first line is striking and full of anguish, so the chime scrape starts off the piece. Sappho's lover laments their forced seperation and so I continue the piece with a mournful melody that morphs into a dirge. Sappho's response to her tears are words of soft memories, and so my response became a chorale. The works of Maslanka greatly influenced my own writing in his tendency to put in a sparkling woodwind line above the drawn out chorale, and with word of rejoice, and beautiful memory, and love, a good amount of sparkle was needed. As the poem slows to and end, we start to lose more of her words, and we are left with only fragments. I was inclined to reflect this with a section of cues to bring the piece to an end. Softly, delicately, no dance, no groove, no sound." -Amber Sheeran Concert Band, grade level 4 - score and parts included
Publisher: | Murphy Music Press |
Composer/Author: | Sheeran, Amber |
Catalog Number: | W-741 |