Quintet: 'No Title Required' - Parts Only Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1720350

The title of this work is taken from a poem of the same name by the Polish poet,
Wislawa Szymborska (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996) and
considers the importance of revolutions, tyrannicides and political conspiracies in
relation to that of skimming shadows, fluttering white butterflies and windblown
clouds.

No Title Required has two movements. The first is fast and virtuosic, the second,
lyrical and colouristic. Both have the same formal pattern - a series of variations
where one aspect of each section provides the ‘theme’ for the following variation.
Whereas the first movement juxtaposes blocks of material to create a disjunct,
segmented structure, the second weaves lines together to create a single, flexible
texture (disrupted towards the end by ‘reminiscences’ of the work’s opening).

No Title Required was commissioned by Double Image (to whom the work is
dedicated) and has received several performances worldwide. The work was
chosen to represent Australia in the ISCM World Music Days, Hong Kong in 2002
and was recorded by Double Image on Metier Records MSV CD 92056.