Name: Requiescat (2024) by Colin Eatock Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Colin Eatock Music
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Requiescat (2024)
by Colin Eatock Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Requiescat (2024)

Artist Colin Eatock

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Colin Eatock

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Colin Eatock Music

Level 5

Product ID 1710022

Genre Baroque Chamber 21st Century

Instruments Cello Soprano Theorbo Violin

Product Description

Soprano, violin, cello, theorbo; ca. 7 min.

The composer writes: This composition was inspired by a conversation with a friend about sadness in music. He suggested several symphonic movements as candidates for the title of "the saddest music in the world"; but I held firm to my conviction that the saddest music ever penned was the aria "When I am Laid," from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

I'm pleased to acknowledge that my setting of Oscar Wilde's poem Requiescat owes much to Purcell's "When I am Laid." Like Purcell's famous aria, my song is a "baroque" setting: a passacaglia, in a slow 3/4 metre. As well, my text written by Wilde after the death of his sister, Isola, at the tender age of nine is intensely tragic.

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