Watkins, Huw : The Phoenix and the Turtle

Titel (DE): The Phoenix and the Turtle - for chamber choir
Titel (EN): The Phoenix and the Turtle - for chamber choir
Titel (FR): The Phoenix and the Turtle - for chamber choir
Komponist / Composer: Watkins, Huw
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: gemischter Chor (SATB), minimum 12 Singstimmen / mixed choir (SATB), minimum 12 voices
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Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 2014
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 6'
Verlag / Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 11.01.2016
Ausgabe / Publication: Chorpartitur - Choral score -
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Seiten / Pages: 16
Verarbeitung: Rückendrahtheftung - Saddle-wire stitching
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: fortgeschritten - schwer - advanced - difficult - avancé - difficile
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Reihe / Series: Choral Music of Our Time
ISMN: M-2201-3476-0
ISMN-13: 979-0-2201-3476-0
ISMN-EAN: 9790220134760
UPC: 841886022126

The Phoenix and the Turtle sets a poem by Shakespeare published 1601 that uses the metaphor of a bird's funeral to describe the death of an idealistic love. Watkins spins out a jazzy melody surrounded by close harmonies using the text to create a lively, rhythmic opening. The textures and rhythms settle into homophonic movement as the chords open ever outward in a slower middle section, before resolving onto a solemn ending in unison.