Music in an empty house (Clarinet in A and Guitar)
by David Warin Solomons
A Clarinet - Digital Sheet Music

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Instrumental Duet A Clarinet,Guitar,Instrumental Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.577807

Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #3046689. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.577807).

Based on my setting of a poem by the surrealist poet Hugh Sykes-Davies.
The sound sample is an electronic preview
The pdf contains Score and Parts

(BTW A version with B flat clarinet is also available, but the guitar will need a Capo)

The poem is as follows:
The house was empty and
      the people of the house
      gone many months

Months for the weevil
      for the patient worm
      timber-mole softly tunnelling
      for the parliament of rats

Footsteps slink past
      damp walls
      down
      long
      corridors

Slow feet
      warily scuff
      bare boards
The much-bitten
      tapestry
        holds
          many
      moths

In a certain curtain'd room
      the halting steps evade
      chairs white shrouded

To twitch the winding-sheet
      around a grand piano
      thin phalanx of sound
      sharp rat's teeth edge yellow
      with decay

The much-bitten
      tapestry
      holds
      many
      moths

On rat's teeth-edge
      fingers preparate
      hesitate

Then falling send
  as tenantry
    darnp-muffled chords
      rusting strings
  a still-born song 

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