Bouleumata
Composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Publisher: Cadenza Music
$17.00
| Movement/Section | Duration: 3.25 |
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From the composer:
"Shortly before writing this piece I reached the final of a competition to compose the music for the Cambridge Greek Play, which happened to be Medea that year. Although I didn’t end up winning, Euripides’ play stunned me with its depiction of Medea, a woman who kills her two children to spite her husband Jason (who has just left her for a Corinthian princess). This piece was inspired by the wildly contrasting emotions that Medea experiences during a monologue immediately preceding the double-murder: that she can’t possibly go through with it, but that she must in order to punish her enemies. In one passage she says “I understand that what I am about to do is wrong, but my thumos (emotion) has vanquished my bouleumata (ability to deliberate)." -
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Pages: 3
Pages (score):
Publisher Code: CAZCFHBOU01
UPC: 9790570470150
ISBN:
ISMN: 9790570470150
Length: 29.8 cm
Width: 21.1 cm
Thickness: 0.141 cm
Weight: 58 g
