Product Description
For Concert Band 12m
The anthropologists say
that Cro-Magnon men lived in caves and used some basic tools, such as hooks and
needles. They cooked, made clothes, and buried the dead. Some say they made
art, painting on the walls of the caves. They were the first to question
things. I imagine that, with curiosity, they invented faith. They cooked faith
with fear to invent courage. I made this piece in 2011 when I started
researching new languages for my writing. The previous piece, Eli, Eli,
sought to represent a current men walking on their faith, searching for
it. Magnon seeks to represent an older man, seeking to give reason to his own
fear. The style of musical writing is different from my other works. There are
three distinct pieces within this piece, almost like movements, unified by a
structure of relationships between notes and use of motifs, although these
rarely occur in the same way. The melodies are divided and their pieces are
thrown for as multiple possibilities of the timbres. Above technical
considerations, there is a constant sense of instability more or less
pronounced. Such is fear
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