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Small Ensemble Cello, Flute, Percussion, Soprano, Soprano voice - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1706555
Composed by Anthony Gilbert. This edition: pdf. 20th Century. 64 pages. UYMP #1270360. Published by UYMP (A0.1706555).
A song-cycle to poems of Aloysius Bertrand.
Aloysius (or more correctly Louis) Bertrand lived at the same time as Chopin, fought a long battle with the same disease (tuberculosis), and died in Paris two years after him. The Gothic symbolism of his huge prose poem Gaspard de la Nuit has haunted me (sometimes literally) since adolescence, but only quite recently have I felt ready to tackle any sort of setting of its bizarre, layered, highly suggestive fantasies. The texts of this cycle of five songs are taken, with minor adaptations, from Book 3 - La Nuit et ses Prestiges . The title is taken from the little moon-verse at the heart of the cycle, so it’s a pun on the word vers: ‘moonworms’ or ‘moonwords’, but not quite ‘moonwards’. The imagery is less Parisian than Dijonnais, this town having been where Bertrand spent his adolescent years. My setting is in the original French; I’ve made the following translation in case of need.
Vers de Lune was commissioned by the contemporary ensemble Psappha with funds generously provided by the Ida Carroll Trust and the Holst Foundation. It was first performed by Alison Wells and Psappha in Liverpool in March 2000. (A first performance of part of Ondine was given by Alison Wells and John Turner at the Bridgewater Hall in September 1998.)
A. G.
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Small Ensemble Cello, Flute, Percussion, Soprano, Soprano voice - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1706555
Composed by Anthony Gilbert. This edition: pdf. 20th Century. 64 pages. UYMP #1270360. Published by UYMP (A0.1706555).
A song-cycle to poems of Aloysius Bertrand.
Aloysius (or more correctly Louis) Bertrand lived at the same time as Chopin, fought a long battle with the same disease (tuberculosis), and died in Paris two years after him. The Gothic symbolism of his huge prose poem Gaspard de la Nuit has haunted me (sometimes literally) since adolescence, but only quite recently have I felt ready to tackle any sort of setting of its bizarre, layered, highly suggestive fantasies. The texts of this cycle of five songs are taken, with minor adaptations, from Book 3 - La Nuit et ses Prestiges . The title is taken from the little moon-verse at the heart of the cycle, so it’s a pun on the word vers: ‘moonworms’ or ‘moonwords’, but not quite ‘moonwards’. The imagery is less Parisian than Dijonnais, this town having been where Bertrand spent his adolescent years. My setting is in the original French; I’ve made the following translation in case of need.
Vers de Lune was commissioned by the contemporary ensemble Psappha with funds generously provided by the Ida Carroll Trust and the Holst Foundation. It was first performed by Alison Wells and Psappha in Liverpool in March 2000. (A first performance of part of Ondine was given by Alison Wells and John Turner at the Bridgewater Hall in September 1998.)
A. G.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
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