Description
Perusal Score
Audio
Video
Duration
3 min
Premiere
5 December 1996
Deane Carriage Barn
Bennington, Vermont
Masako Yanagita, viola; Daniel Epstein, piano
Deane Carriage Barn
Bennington, Vermont
Masako Yanagita, viola; Daniel Epstein, piano
Instrumentation
viola, piano
Program Notes
‘Martyrs Tune’ sets a version of Psalm 39 of the Bay Psalm Book, a Psalter popular in 17th century New England uses its melody as cantus firmus, accompaniment, and melody in a complex canonic process.
‘Martyrs Tune’ is a part of the ongoing collection ‘Cancionero Anonimo’, a loose grouping of fragments, sketches, studies, and completed works that together document a life