Upon Silence
Mezzo Soprano & Viols
Voice - Sheet Music

Viols

SKU: AP.12-0571512518

Mezzo Soprano & Viols. Composed by George Benjamin. Larger Works; Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Vocal Extended Work. Faber Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork; Secular. Score. Faber Music #12-0571512518. Published by Faber Music (AP.12-0571512518).

ISBN 9780571512515. English.

Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings.

For Mezzo Soprano and Viols).