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Composer: Emily Joy Sullivan
Duration: 7:15
Scoring: violin
Materials: score (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: 7:15
Scoring: violin
Materials: score (8.5 x 11)
*This item is a PDF-download. Digital downloads are non-refundable. The purchase of this item entitles you to download, save, and print one copy of this file for private use. The purchase of this PDF file does not include the conveyance of copyright. You do not have the right to distribute this material to any third party, by any means. The copyright holder maintains all rights over their intellectual property. By submitting your order you demonstrate your acknowledgment of, and agreement to, these conditions.
Program Note
Question explores the striving and dialogic nature of the human mind. It embodies the existential questioning we cannot help but engage in, but also the creative joy that results when we transcend body-mind dualism and integrate the supposed Cartesian split within us.
A pensive, probing musical question begins the piece, in a singular but troubled voice. It alternately gains confidence and doubt, fragmenting into two dueling voices. When the question’s upward striving finally reaches a goal point, the musical line is able to expand, relax, release.
The same essential musical materials then find coherence and vivacity in an embodied song-dance. All is integrated, and a visceral, embodied energy comes forth from the freedom of regularity. The violin is used in a way reminiscent of folk and fiddling traditions; the musician accompanies herself, rather than dueling with herself.
However, the mind must inevitably return to its existential questions, its self-reflexiveness. It once again fractures into multiple voices, probing and pained, as it engages in the internal question-and-answer that is the dialogic nature of being human.
— Emily Joy Sullivan
A pensive, probing musical question begins the piece, in a singular but troubled voice. It alternately gains confidence and doubt, fragmenting into two dueling voices. When the question’s upward striving finally reaches a goal point, the musical line is able to expand, relax, release.
The same essential musical materials then find coherence and vivacity in an embodied song-dance. All is integrated, and a visceral, embodied energy comes forth from the freedom of regularity. The violin is used in a way reminiscent of folk and fiddling traditions; the musician accompanies herself, rather than dueling with herself.
However, the mind must inevitably return to its existential questions, its self-reflexiveness. It once again fractures into multiple voices, probing and pained, as it engages in the internal question-and-answer that is the dialogic nature of being human.
— Emily Joy Sullivan
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.