The City in the Sea
Harp - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Harp
Viola
Flute
Publishers
Fennica Gehrman
Formats
Set of Parts
Score and Parts
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
Alto flute, viola, harp

SKU: FG.55011-350-3

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score and parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-350-3. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-350-3).

ISBN 9790550113503.

This piece takes its title from the eponymous poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Whittall had originally intended to keep his distance expressively from Poe's Gothic world, Poe's central image - a decaying city in the dimming West ruled by death, slowly sinking into watery oblivion - was a powerful one. Perhaps inevitably, the piece took on shades of the slow-motion humanitarian disaster unfolding on Europe's southern shores, bringing out undertones of desperation, pursuit, obsessive, elegiac reflection, and ultimately despair as it slides into the depths.

The City in the Sea was commissioned by the Finnish Viola Society for the 2017 Tampere National Viola Competition.