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Darknesse Visible
Darknesse Visible (Solo) - Sheet Music Download PDF
Thomas Adès
Darknesse Visible (Solo) - Sheet Music Download PDF
Thomas Adès
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| Product number: | fbd-34640 |
|---|---|
| Arrangement: | Solo |
| Instruments: | Piano |
| Genre: | Classical, Instrumental |
| Classical: | Contemporary |
| Difficulty: | Advanced |
| Artist: | Thomas Adès |
| Authors: | Thomas Adès |
| Pages: | 7 |
| Publisher: | Faber Music Limited |
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Thomas Adès’s Darknesse Visible for piano solo (1992) is a 7-minute explosion of John Dowland’s lute song In Darknesse Let Me Dwell (1610). No notes have been added; indeed, some have been removed. Patterns latent in the original have been isolated and regrouped, with the aim of illuminating the song from within, as if during the course of a performance.
Adès transforms the piano into an instrument that's alchemically capable of sustaining a continuous line of melody; the technique of ceaseless tremolo that he demands of the player conjures a ghostly shimmer from the instrument.
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