From The Great Land: Woman’s Songs
Composer: Judith Lang Zaimont
Publisher: Jeanné Inc.
$81.00
| Movement/Section | Duration: 21.75 |
|---|
-
From the publisher:
"The title of the work comes from the translation of the word "Alaska," which is "the great land." In the past, it is said, when there was hunger in the land, old Eskimo people who could no longer contribute usefully to the family were left on the ice to die. These songs explore this experience through the mind of just such an abandoned old woman.Some aspects of native musical timbres, created by traditional western musical means, are found here: the two instrumentalists double on the Eskimo drum (or large tom-tom), the singer speaks, and the clarinetist plays with the mouthpiece attached to the lower half of the clarinet and with the mouthpiece alone. Although the uneven rhythms are at times suggestive of native chant, musical treatments were not drawn from actual elements of traditional Eskimo song."
Clarinet and piano each double on Eskimo drum.
-
Performer / Ensemble Link Comments -
Pages: 18
Pages (score): 61
Publisher Code: JP5017
UPC: 061963350175
ISBN:
ISMN: 9790301904503
Length: 30.5 cm
Width: 23.6 cm
Thickness: 1.17 cm
Weight: 602 g
