Mark Isaacs: Songs Of The Universal (1995): Songs Of The Universal: From Imperfection's Murkiest Cloud

dc.contributor.authorComposer: Mark Isaacs
dc.contributor.editorGrafton-Greene, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T04:25:30Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T04:25:30Z
dc.date.issued1995
dc.description.abstract"This piece was inspired by Walt Whitman's 1874 poem, 'Song of the Universal' (given below), and is in many ways a dialogue with the poem. The piece is in five movements. The first four proceed from each other without a break. Each movement is annotated with a segment of the poem: the first movement with the poem's opening lines and the last movement with the poem's closing line. The musical soundworld explored by the piece is, as one would imagine, a mystical and introspective vista. The current trend in contemporary music seems to be to let the evocation of the mystical take its musical shape in the form of a continuously diatonic harmonic language, drawing from the antecedents of Western pre-Baroque ecclesiastical musical forms (for example plainchant) and non-Western religious/ mystical musical forms (again mostly diatonic). This piece, however, has its antecedents in the rich stream of highly chromaticised Western mystery music explored in the early part of this century by such composers as Scriabin, Delius and Charles Ives amongst others." -- Mark Isaacs
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dc.identifierCSM30T10
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733714973
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2024.
dc.publisherCanberra School of Music, Australian National University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnthology of Australian Music ; Series 3
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnthology of Australian Music on Disc (30)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCSM 30: PERIHELION - works by Davidson, Kay, Hair, Isaacs and Smetanin
dc.rights© 1996 Anthology of Australian Music on Disc
dc.subjectClassical Music
dc.titleMark Isaacs: Songs Of The Universal (1995): Songs Of The Universal: From Imperfection's Murkiest Cloud
dc.typeSound recording
local.description.notesProduced by: Patricia Pollett and Nigel Sabin ; Recorded by: Michael Grafton-Greene ; Remastered at: ABC Music Centre, Brisbane ; Recording date: 12-18 October 1995

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