Composed by Ed Hughes. This edition: pdf. 21st Century. 52 pages. UYMP #1300011. Published by UYMP (A0.1738712).
Written for The New Music Players and Orchestra of Sound and Light for concerts in London and Sussex, with funding support from the RVW Trust and Arts Council England.
Voyage to the Moon is a continuous score of approximately 14 minutes with outer fast sections and a slower inner section of a dream-like character. The work is inspired by a film entitled Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), written and directed by Georges Méliès.
The film itself reflects 19th century interests in science and discoveries, as well as the science fiction of Jules Verne. At the same time it expresses literary fantasy and some critics point out an underlying critique of colonial adventuring. The plot describes a group of astronomers who determine to fire a rocket to the moon including a handful of explorers. They reach the moon (famously landing in the moon's face) and then encounter a strange race of aliens, with whom they argue and destroy. The return to earth involves a dramatic descent, a plunge into the ocean and then celebratory dancing.
I wanted to respond to this film because it inhabits a surreal and dream-like space, and uses an idiosyncratic visual language, but also speaks directly to today's audiences. The score was conceived as part of a tour to schools in Hastings, Brighton and Lewes. School audiences may be provoked to discuss science questions and to consider ideas about the moon and attitudes to exploration in 1902.
There is also a version of this piece for orchestra, entitled Le Voyage dans La Lune.
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Composed by Ed Hughes. This edition: pdf. 21st Century. 52 pages. UYMP #1300011. Published by UYMP (A0.1738712).
Written for The New Music Players and Orchestra of Sound and Light for concerts in London and Sussex, with funding support from the RVW Trust and Arts Council England.
Voyage to the Moon is a continuous score of approximately 14 minutes with outer fast sections and a slower inner section of a dream-like character. The work is inspired by a film entitled Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), written and directed by Georges Méliès.
The film itself reflects 19th century interests in science and discoveries, as well as the science fiction of Jules Verne. At the same time it expresses literary fantasy and some critics point out an underlying critique of colonial adventuring. The plot describes a group of astronomers who determine to fire a rocket to the moon including a handful of explorers. They reach the moon (famously landing in the moon's face) and then encounter a strange race of aliens, with whom they argue and destroy. The return to earth involves a dramatic descent, a plunge into the ocean and then celebratory dancing.
I wanted to respond to this film because it inhabits a surreal and dream-like space, and uses an idiosyncratic visual language, but also speaks directly to today's audiences. The score was conceived as part of a tour to schools in Hastings, Brighton and Lewes. School audiences may be provoked to discuss science questions and to consider ideas about the moon and attitudes to exploration in 1902.
There is also a version of this piece for orchestra, entitled Le Voyage dans La Lune.
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!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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