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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber, The Limited
ISBN-100571515789
ISBN-139780571515783
eBay Product ID (ePID)99691410
Product Key Features
Book TitleUpon Silence : Mezzo Soprano and String Ensemble, Score
Number of Pages999 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicPrinted Music / Vocal, Printed Music / Opera & Classical Scores, Genres & Styles / Classical
GenreMusic
AuthorGeorge Benjamin
Book SeriesFaber Edition Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight5.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Composed byBenjamin, George
SynopsisUpon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings. For Mezzo Soprano with String Ensemble.
