Miriam Hyde: Reflected Reeds

Composer: Miriam Hyde

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Miriam Hyde: Reflected Reeds

Date

1956

Authors

Composer: Miriam Hyde

Publisher

Canberra School of Music, Australian National University

Abstract

Reflected Reeds is an impression of a marshy area through which the Coogee tram used to run. The reeds, leaning this way and that, made fantastic patterns reflected in the shallow water. Arpeggiated chords are a feature of the work, rippling upwards (as they are most often heard), downwards, or moving outwards, evenly spread between the hands.