The Origin of the Harp: Score - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571518117 ISBN 13: 9780571518111

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1999

Riassunto

Gentle, subtle, refined and romantic, Thomas Ades's The Origin of the Harp takes its inspiration from a painting by Daniel Maclise whose subject is the Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles hopelessly to leave her element and join him on land. The Gods, taking pity on her failure, intervene and turn her into a harp, transforming her weeping into a gentle music of wind through strings. The painting shows her in the moment preceding the metamorphosis, the strands of her hair framed by a triangle of her body, a rock and her arm. In this piece, too, the harp itself is not featured but suggested, at the start of the fourth and final section, after a flash of divine intervention. A brief nine-minute tone poem for trios of clarinets, violas and cellos, and percussion, this work was first performed by the Halle Orchestra in 1994.

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[English]
This piece takes its title from a painting by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) in the Manchester City Art Gallery. Its subject is the mock Celtic Legend of a water nymph who falls for a mortal and struggles hopelessly to leave her element and join him on land. The Gods, taking pity on her failure, intervene and turn her into a harp, transforming her weeping into a gentle music of wind through strings.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571518117
• ISBN 13: 9780571518111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64