The Lone Seafarer (1998)
for solo violin
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S A LLY BEAM I S H The Lone Seafarer (1998) for solo violin
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N.M.O. 13199
N.M.O. 13199 / ISMN 979-0-065-12518-3 Contact the publisher for further information: Published by: Norsk Musikforlag A/S Postboks 1499 Vika N-0116 Oslo Norway TEL 00-47-23 00 20 10 FAX 00-47-22 42 44 35 E-mail: order@musikforlaget.no Copyright © 2012 by Norsk Musikforlag A/S, Oslo. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Music engraving: Sally Beamish/Andrew Bayly Cover design/calligraphy: Christopher Haanes Printed by: Oslo Sats, Repro & Montasje A/S, Oslo.
PROGRAMME NOTE The Lone Seafarer The piece is inspired by a poem of the same name, contained in a 10th century codex at Exeter Cathedral, but thought to be much older. It combines ideas from prehistoric paganism with those of Christianity, and follows the traces of Gilgamesh, the first man in history, in his quest for eternal life, using the metaphor of a sea-voyage. The poem is laden with beautiful and unusual imagery, as this excerpt illustrates: All I ever heard along the ice-way was sounding sea; the gannet’s shanty, whooper and curlew calls and the mewling gull were all my gaming, mead and mirth. At tempest-tested granite crags the ice-winged tern would taunt; sprayfeathered ospreys overhead would soar and scream. (translation – Charles Harrison Wallace) The piece was commisioned by Seaton and District Music Club, and first performed by Anthony Marwood, Seaton, Devon, Jan 1998. Sally Beamish 1998
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