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Ricorso four songs for tenor and piano
RSN:
71784
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Composition Date:
2002
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:10:00
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Programme Notes
Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MV 1101 J321ric
Genre
Solo Voice with Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2016-10-07
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
Commissioned by: Joseph Schnurr
Master Location
Toronto
Language
English
First line of Text
I remember I was young, playing at her feet
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
Score
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
51762
Voices
Tenor
1
51762
Keyboard
Piano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
2003, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, United Kingdom Erik Enqvist, tenor
See Also
71873, Ricorso four songs tenor and piano, AR3294, Daryl Jamieson, 00:09:22
I was inspired to write this work after delving into the history of Finnigans Wake, when I learned that the structure of James Joyce’s great book was modelled on the theories of the Italian historian-philosopher, Giambattista Vico. Vico’s philosophy of history, laid out in his Scienza Nuova (1725), suggests that each and every civilisation moves through a four-part cycle of faiths. Firstly, the culture puts its faith in god(s), then heroes, then other men (ie, each other), then in nothing. This final stage is marked by an aimlessness of society which leads to the destruction of the culture and a return to the beginning. This is, of course, massively oversimplified, possibly to the point of misrepresentation.Regardless, with that crude understanding, I decided that I would humbly follow in Joyce’s footsteps write my own series of four poems based on Vico’s four different stages. Instead of dealing with whole cultures, I compressed the four stages into the life of one man, who is looking back from the final stage (called ricorso) and remembering fondly his life during the first 3 stages, wishing he still believed in something. - DJPS – Happy 100th Bloomsday everyone!
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