Small Ensemble Bassoon,Flute,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.958519
Composed by Joseph Dillon Ford. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 9 pages. David Warin Solomons2 #3860891. Published by David Warin Solomons2 (A0.958519).
A series of eight humorous, ironic, and provocative musical idiograms:
"Leviathan"
"Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)"
"Schism"
"Heresy"
"Scenes from the Inquisition"
"Table Music for a Glutton"
"Love Feast"
"Incantation"
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcMSCTY7_Y
The eight pieces comprising A Little Eye Music: Sacred and Profane Musings on the Homograph 'Agape,' may at first glance present an enigma. At second glance, they may not even pass for music at all: There aren't very many notes on the page, and to make matters worse, the same ones keep reappearing from one movement to the next.
This is understandably enough to drive away most performers, who generally require copious quantities of notes and at least a modicum of variety to keep their audiences entertained. I'm sorry to disappoint them, but A Little Eye Music is no mere entertainment. In fact, it's nothing less than a distillation of theological knowledge I've acquired through years of study, reflection, and practical experience. As the title suggests, this knowledge is communicated through the eye in particular; the ear stands by only to confirm the evidence of things seen.
Thus, A Little Eye Music continues the tradition of Augenmusik so happily practiced in former times when composers had rather more to think about than pursuing academic pedigrees and besting their opponents in competitions for corporate grants and dwindling university posts. In those bygone days, when it wasn't unusual for serious music to be seen more often than it was heard, the scholar-not the performer or even the composer--commanded the greatest respect. Music was understood not merely as a creative or performing art but more importantly as a mathematical discipline whose principles informed the entire cosmos. It was a revelation of the Word of God through the medium of sound, and no human activity whether good or evil, could be properly understood without reference to the very consonances and dissonances that kept the stars and planets in their respective spheres.
Today, of course, that sort of thinking is generally considered rubbish. But in this brave new postmodern world of ours, rubbish has become the focus of the loftiest intellectual enterprises. Indeed, making rubbish out of the so-called classics has become virtually de rigueur for respectable scholars, many of whose careers are built on deconstructing the silly myths foisted on the Western world by dead white Europeans.
In A Little Eye Music, on the other hand, I've set about to reconstruct as much theology as my lamentably latter place in history will allow. This I 've done by exposing the curiously compelling connections between two words of obvious spiritual significance spelled exactly the same but with different origins and meanings, whose definitions, derived from Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, are given below:
agape - n. 1. the love of God or Christ for mankind. 2. the brotherly or spiritual love of one Christian for another, corresponding to the love of God for man. 3. unselfish love of one person for another without sexual implications; brotherly love. 4. love feast
agape - adv., adj. 1. with the mouth wide open; in an attitude of wonder or eagerness 2. Wide open: his mouth agape.
The reader will observe that the letters of these words can readily be expressed in purely musical terms by the pitches "A," "G," and "E," and the dynamic marking "p" for piano. This simple material, "carved out" of the homograph agape, thus serves as the basis of my entire score.
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