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Igor Korneitchouk
Tintinnabulation
UES106205-000
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 24
Description
The title "Tintinnabulation", meaning the frenzied ringing of bells, comes from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells." No singers are used for the text. Rather, instruments convey the vibrant colors of Poe's words evoking the different sorts of bells from the poem -- such as the silver bells of sleighs, bronze bells signaling an alarm, funereal iron bells -- frequently juxtaposing and interchanging them in a bi-partite fantasy. Tintinnabulation is a 2012 reworking of an earlier Korneitchouk score, From the Bells..., written in the 1980s for brass and percussion octet. When La Jolla Symphony conductor Steven Schick, a celebrated percussionist, requested an overture-like work to open the concert, the choice seemed apt. By the composer's own account, the revised work is almost a concerto for percussion ensemble.
"Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells - "
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 24