Suzanne's River-Song

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-355719-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, Gewicht: 100 g

for violin and piano
A short lyrical work based on music form the opera A Better Place, and in particular on the melancholy descending scales and rising fifths associated with the character of Suzanne. This is a small character portrait of Suzanne, with the omnipresent character of the river as her backdrop.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Butler, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Saiteninstrumente

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Butler was born in Romsey, England, in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From 1998-1999 Martin was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex.
Butler's works are widely performed and broadcast both in the UK and abroad.