singer, one-man choir, guitarist and composer
Music in an empty house (Alto Saxophone and Guitar)
SM-000284370
- Composer
- David W Solomons
- Publisher
- David W Solomons
- Genre
- Classical / Contemporary
- Instrumentation
- Alto Saxophone, 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
To avoid an excessive number of sharps in the key signature for the alto saxophone I have transposed the piece up a semitone, so the guitar will need to have a Capo on the 1st fret.
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