Ore: Glacier Song No. 2
From "H2O Trilogy No. 2"
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- Composer: Cecilie Ore (1954-)
- Format: Study Score
- Instrumentation: String Ensemble
- Work: No. 2 from H2O Trilogy No. 2 (2025)
- Binding: Spiral Bound
- Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches
Description
The H2O-trilogy is in a Major landscaped work for string quartet in three parts. The music portrays the H2O molecule in its three forms of existence: water (moving from streams, rivers, rapids though ponds and lakes into waterfalls, fjords and the open sea), ice (slowly grinding glaciers) and water vapor (enveloping nature in fog, haze and mist). H2O Trilogy No. 2 is rewritten for string ensemble.
Part I: WaterWorks II is a tribute to Hardanger and the West Coast of Norway with its waterfalls, narrow fjords and dramatic nature. The music is inspired by how water travels through the landscape, starting as tine trickles far up in the mountains soon to become small creeks which gather into rivers and powerful waterfalls passing through mountain lakes, gathering strength before chuting into the deep fjords and finally spreading out into the ocean where it evaporates and returns to the mountains falling again as rain... and the cycle restarts...
Part II: GLACIER SONG II is composed as a tribute to the Jostedal Glacier in Western Norway. Its slowly moving masses of ice and its cold, crystalline crispness have been my main inspiration. - During 'the little ice age' in Europe (1550 - 1850) the climate was so harsh that waterways froze every year and glaciers grew and expanded. This is echoed in Cold Song from the opera King Arthur by P/D where Cupid awakens the spirit of winter: 'The Cold Genius'. Fragments from the Cold Song appear in Glacier Song as flashbacks from this colder period and serve as a reminder of how the climate has been and always will be changing.
Part III: Morning Mist II is composed as a tribute to the long and extensive coastline of Norway. The music is inspired by the sheets of mist which often unexpectedly roll in from the ocean, muffling and muting all sounds, bewildering and blurring spatial orientation. Gently the mist settles as low-lying clouds cling to the surface of the earth while lamenting foghorns wail and weep in the distance. But little by little beams of sunlight imperceptibly force their way through the mist which slowly dissolves and dissipates into thin air.
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Ore: Glacier Song No. 2
