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Johannes Maria Staud
Staud: Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden, für Sopran, kleines Ensemble und Tonband
Gesangstext: Durs Grünbein
UE32865
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Languages: Deutsch
Format: 420 x 297 mm
Pages: 30
Description
Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden (Song of Vanishing) is the 'aria' of a woman of unearthly beauty. She suffers from consumption which causes her to die, slowly but unstoppably.
The piece is a study for the full-length music theatre work after Edgar Allan Poe I am writing for the Munich Biennale (world premiere in May 2004). It is my first composition which integrates electronically generated sound with vocal-instrumental material.
Rather than fully embedding the tape in the texture of the ensemble and the soprano, I have endeavoured to make the two layers mutually enrich each other. I did not set out to demonstrate their incompatibility - on the contrary: they are meant to make a joint attempt at approximating a sound image (including spatialisation) which became more and more concrete during composition. This image could not have been realised exclusively through vocal and instrumental means.
Johannes Maria Staud
More information
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Languages: Deutsch
Format: 420 x 297 mm
Pages: 30