Solis Overture
For Percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, violoncello and electronics
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Specifications
Region
Europe
Estimated Duration
6 - 10min
Date
2013
ISMN : 979-0-2325-1914-2
Notes on this piece
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Though atypical in many ways, this piece is in fact an overture for my opera, titled Pedr Solis. It is unusual in that it will probably never be heard in front of the opera as the instrumentation is quite different. It was also written before the opera, and thus acts as more of a sketch pad than a summation of primary themes. The material types and the melodic fragment toward the end of this piece do play key roles in the larger work however, which had been under development for some time when the overture was composed.
The opera chronicles the fictionalized tale of an actual Norwegian author, Pedr Solis, whose work was best known in Scandinavia during the 60s and 70s. Solis wrote only two novels, the most famous of which is Stillaset, published in 1970. It is perhaps the most extreme example of literary modernism to emerge from Norway, and, as with many of his writings, takes literary modernism itself on as a subtext. A third, still unpublished novel was apparently well underway when Solis disappeared from the public eye. Many speculate that he isolated himself in the far north of Norway, though this was never officially confirmed. The libretto for the opera, by Paul Schick, draws upon this account of Solis’ life, as well as von Hofmannsthal's play The Tower.
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Instrumentation
Percussions|Electric Guitar|Piano|violin|Cello|electronics
Recording
Wild Rumpus (Mckenzie Camp
Score Details
Format - A3 / Tabloid
Pages - 40
Pages - 40
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