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"Through a Glass Darkly," for Soloists, Double Chorus and Orchestra.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Olin, Esther M. Clark |
| Copyright Year | 1978 |
| Abstract | Through a Glass Darkly is an original musical composition for double chorus and orchestra based on an original poem by the composer. The text of the poem follows below. The ’four-movement work employs both serial and non-serial procedures, melodic, contrapuntal, and density writing, as well as the development of musical materials designed to reflect the imagery of the text. The poetic verses portray four ages of man: Birth, Adolescence, Mid-age, and Old-age, and some of the difficulties of these ages. The overall feeling, however, is one of hope and optimism, since there is always an awareness of external Presence. Specific features of interest in the work are: 1. the ensemble instrumental dialogues of movement I; 2. the functional layering of instrumental groups in the texture of movement II; and 3. the use of textual and musical tropes in movement III. Also of interest are the illustrative drawings opening each movement of the score which visually realize the idea of the text. Beauty glorious, new, tender, innocent from darkness to darkness. Our kind, crooked by our doing; bent twig, fallen fruit abandoned by will to will. Where is good? love? xii u U o u g li a Qflass * * -k Against wall, breakers of cries unknown, unknowing, unwilling to be. Hurt, sorrow, pain? Song, joy, peace? Place, plan, goal? God? roan? They thrive; I hope. * * * Strung out, unresponsive, alien, dead. Winner, nor man, angel, ancestor. Demon, devil, nothing . . . thing, Flesh, time, environ, conspire. Cry, from before, beseeching, blind; Who can. . .? * * * Time faint, fearful, fleeting, full. Question, sorrow, pain? Will . . . is. Yesterday, tomorrow, now, the same. being-Being; life-Life; thought-Thought; center-Center. Not alone, not by will, only gracious gift. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9163&context=gradschool_disstheses |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
