{"title":"Sheet music composed by Richard Causton (1971-)","description":"Richard Causton (1971-) is a composer from United Kingdom. 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like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's\nBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;\nEach mortal thing does one thing and the same:\nDeals out that being indoors each one dwells;\nSelves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,\nCrying Whát I do is me: for that I came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the animals in the poem, I wanted to allow the instruments in my piece to be unashamedly themselves, and this conditioned the musical material: open fifths in the strings, long cantilenas in the wind, and a certain grandiosity in the writing for harp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece opens with a sort of speeded-up Renaissance counterpoint for string quartet – perfect intervals and a resonant setting – and proceeds through several contrasting but linked episodes: a vertiginous solo for harp; a ‘shadow boxing' passage for harp and string quartet; distorted folk music which gives rise to fireworks in the clarinet part; frantic, strummed pizzicato; a slowly unfolding melody in the wind over string tremolos, which leads via a reprise back to a transformed, now subdued version of the opening string quartet.\nIn the closing section all seven instruments, now united, cross a threshold into a slightly different world from which their previous music can still be glimpsed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© Richard Causton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42534614138959,"sku":"9780193360587","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/d33726e715470d99ff7aa481dc2011a6.jpg?v=1749583529"},{"product_id":"causton-notturno-oup","title":"Causton: Notturno","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/zh\/collections\/richard-causton\"\u003eRichard Causton (1971-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Full Score\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eChamber Ensemble\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: Notturno (1998) (10 Players)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9780193558236\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e9.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 31\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three movements of this piece each explore different aspects of night-time, both real and imaginary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first movement, a smooth central section is framed by rhetorical instrumental dialogues; this music is associated with a poem by Salvatore Quasimodo which describes an old tree, a refuge to birds of the night, which \"resounds with a rapid beating of wings\", and \"from on high… listens intently to the abyss\". The central panel of the movement is formed by a sort of distant, blurred polyphony, lit up at intervals by bright chorale-like passages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second movement is an interlude in cyclical form. As it rotates, the music follows through a trajectory arising from the opening viola solo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third movement retreads the same harmonic ground as the first, but this time the music has been pushed towards extremes. The very slow central chorale, associated with the breathless calm of an uninhabited night-time landscape, is juxtaposed with fast, rough music like something of the brutality which can follow when man inhabits such spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© Richard Causton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42534634061903,"sku":"9780193558236","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/d7a0f701238cee49277227debc8abe19.jpg?v=1750011085"},{"product_id":"causton-rituals-of-hunting-and-blooding-oup","title":"Causton: Rituals of Hunting and Blooding","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/zh\/collections\/richard-causton\"\u003eRichard Causton (1971-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Full Score\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eChamber Ensemble\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: Rituals of Hunting and Blooding (2000) (7 Players)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9780193558298\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e9.1\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 44\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe initial idea for this piece was as music for dance, and although the conception changed subsequently, the first movement is still, in effect, a series of interlinked dances. A drama is enacted between the instruments in which the clarinet plays the part of the hunted, pursued through a maze, or a hall of mirrors, by the other instruments. in the first minute or so of the piece, the gap between hunter and hunted is continually diminished as the music is cramped into an ever-decreasing space. The claustrophobia of this situation is played out obsessively again and again throughout the movement like total internal reflection, or the horror of history repeating itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second movement is the blooding which occurs at the end of the chase. Here an entirely different ritual takes place; the instruments – now including flugelhorn and alto trombone – act as a unit, playing a chorale which recurs throughout the structure. Whether the blooding is that of death or of birth remains open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© Richard Causton, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42534696288335,"sku":"9780193558298","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/0cec4d6dd8a0da7611f5ccfc3945ae3d.jpg?v=1752096330"},{"product_id":"causton-the-persistence-of-memory-oup","title":"Causton: The Persistence of Memory","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/zh\/collections\/richard-causton\"\u003eRichard Causton (1971-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Full Score\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eChamber Ensemble\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: The Persistence of Memory (1995) (12 Players)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9780193558243\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e9.5\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e13.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 82\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis piece has its origins in two diverse sources: the painting by Dali from which the title is derived, and a strange memory from my visit to India five years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhilst staying in a small town near Bangalore, I became ill and had to remain in bed for several days. During the nights, one could hear the hour struck independently from several directions in seemingly random polyrhythms. I came to believe that the sound was made by workers who sat on the rooftops of factories nightly, telling the town what the time was by banging on slates and pieces of metal. in my delirious, half-waking state, it often seemed that time had atrophied, or even changed direction; frequently it seemed that four o'clock in the morning had come before two, and these weird temporal disturbances became absorbed and gathered into my dreams and fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese ideas affect the piece in more or less direct ways. 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