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Amarantos
for chamber orchestra
chamber orchestra
Commissioned by the BBC
Product Details
Description
The Greek word ’amarantos’ means ‘everlasting’ or ‘unfading’, and the title was suggested by the amaranthine flowers in E.E.Cummings’ sonnet ’this is the garden’, where the flowers stand ’enraptured’ when, ’in other lands … and on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled’. Another important image is that of ’pursed lips [blowing] upon cool flutes within wide glooms’, a remarkable idea that was responsible for the work’s coda in which the alto flute plays a prominent role.
John Casken
John Casken
Orchestral Cast
1(alto fl.) · 1 · cl in Bb (b.cl.) - hn. · tpt - perc. (2 bongos, b.d., tam-tam, 3 tom-toms, marimba)(1 player) - pf. - vla · vc.
More Information
Title:
Amarantos
for chamber orchestra
Edition:
Score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1977 - 1978
Duration:
16 ′
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 11483
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-1068-9
Weight:
0,31 kg
Pages:
86
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