Embers: An Incantation (score)
Composer: Sydney Hodkinson
Publisher: Theodore Presser Company
$34.00
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This edition consists of a score. The solo clarinet part from the same publisher is available separately.
From the composer:
"I believe that most artists have two sides to their nature: a public and a private one. This work exhibits the latter. Accordingly, it is primarily directed towards the lone individual – a single being – rather than to any communal audience. Its genesis was tragedies endured by two of my university teaching colleagues: the loss of one’s daughter in her third decade, and the simultaneous deaths of one’s parents. Obviously, this is a sad composition.
The musical design of the piece is straightforward and direct: the solo clarinet at the bottom of its range – very slowly – commences a doleful commentary. Sparse response from the accompanying ensemble – also very gradually – accumulates to drive this line upward. The solo voice states its case as clearly as it is able – offering an entreaty – succumbs and then, with elegiac sighs, simply descends into a largely unresolved repose.
Embers is approximately twenty-three minutes in duration and is scored for clarinet solo and a chamber orchestra of paired woodwinds, seven brass, timpani, 2 percussion, and strings. The work is dedicated to my teaching colleagues clarinetist Lynn Musco and trombonist David Schmidt and was commissioned by the Stetson University School of Music, Thomas Gilmore Masse, Dean. The score was written in February of 2017 and the orchestration completed on March 23 in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida."
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Pages:
Pages (score): 35
Publisher Code: 44641344
UPC: 680160667772
ISBN:
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Length: 30.5 cm
Width: 22.6 cm
Thickness: 0.297 cm
Weight: 164 g
