David Solomons

singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer

Music in an empty house (Flute and Guitar)

SM-000284360
Composer
David W Solomons
Publisher
David W Solomons
Genre
Classical / Instrumental
Instrumentation
Flute, Classical guitar
Scored for
Duo
Type of score
Full score, Parts
Duration
5'0"
Difficulty
Medium
Year of composition
2017

Description
Based on my setting of a poem by the surrealist poet Hugh Sykes-Davies.
The sound sample is an electronic preview
The pdf contains Score and Parts

The poem is as follows:
The house was empty and
the people of the house
gone many months

Months for the weevil
for the patient worm
timber-mole softly tunnelling
for the parliament of rats

Footsteps slink past
damp walls
down
long
corridors

Slow feet
warily scuff
bare boards
The much-bitten
tapestry
holds
many
moths

In a certain curtain'd room
the halting steps evade
chairs white shrouded

To twitch the winding-sheet
around a grand piano
thin phalanx of sound
sharp rat's teeth edge yellow
with decay

The much-bitten
tapestry
holds
many
moths

On rat's teeth-edge
fingers preparate
hesitate

Then falling send
as tenantry
darnp-muffled chords
rusting strings
a still-born song

Upload date
30 Mar 2017

Price

Sheet music file
8.50 USD
PDF, 320.9 Kb (9 p.)

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