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Nighttime "Tu Ne Cede Malis, Sed Contra Audentior Ito"
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In 1979, Martin produced a set of three quintets, in consideration of Gorky's piece Nighttime Enigma Nostalgia. Each is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. "One role of music is to evoke. Therefore, Nighttime is a nocturne, a night piece suggestive of flickering shadows, perhaps created by firelight. It is a recurrent setting in human existence. The music opens with the scene of twilight calm, gently disturbed with the slight uncertainty about what is around us, what we cannot see. Later, the clarinet takes on a solo role, and the notes bleed like careless paint into the other instruments that quietly sustain them. Next, the flute takes over the role of solo. The piece ends with a repeated cadence of morning light." (From the performance notes.) The titles refer to various paintings by Arshile Gorky (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian). As Paul Griffiths, Music Critic of the New York Times, observed, "Martin's interest was apparently not so much in the subject matter of that particular picture as in the general notion of what gives an abstract image wholeness and presence." The pieces were composed in 1979 in Manhattan, New York and were never performed. Each score carries a postscript. For Nighttime, the postscript is "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito." This comes from Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid. After descending into the underworld, Aeneas is told by the Sybil not to submit to misfortune, rather to face it with courage. For Enigma, The postscript is "The question is complex, and life is short." In Nostalgia, there is a brief melody in the flute that appears twice (once at the end), and is designated "Melodie nostalgique." The postscript reads, "...for the evanescence of all things." The reasons for these postscripts may now be forgotten. The first, concernig misfortune, turns out to be an apt motto for events in my life that shortly followed. The postscript of the second piece might be an ancient oracle's cryptic answer to a question concerning the puzzle of our existence. The last postscript refers to impermanence. There is a moment when things come into existence, and another moment when things go out of existence. Each is a precious point in time, and music is the natural art to express this concept."
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In 1979, Martin produced a set of three quintets, in consideration of Gorky's piece Nighttime Enigma Nostalgia. Each is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. "One role of music is to evoke. Therefore, Nighttime is a nocturne, a night piece suggestive of flickering shadows, perhaps created by firelight. It is a recurrent setting in human existence. The music opens with the scene of twilight calm, gently disturbed with the slight uncertainty about what is around us, what we cannot see. Later, the clarinet takes on a solo role, and the notes bleed like careless paint into the other instruments that quietly sustain them. Next, the flute takes over the role of solo. The piece ends with a repeated cadence of morning light." (From the performance notes.) The titles refer to various paintings by Arshile Gorky (Vosdanig Manoog Adoian). As Paul Griffiths, Music Critic of the New York Times, observed, "Martin's interest was apparently not so much in the subject matter of that particular picture as in the general notion of what gives an abstract image wholeness and presence." The pieces were composed in 1979 in Manhattan, New York and were never performed. Each score carries a postscript. For Nighttime, the postscript is "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito." This comes from Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid. After descending into the underworld, Aeneas is told by the Sybil not to submit to misfortune, rather to face it with courage. For Enigma, The postscript is "The question is complex, and life is short." In Nostalgia, there is a brief melody in the flute that appears twice (once at the end), and is designated "Melodie nostalgique." The postscript reads, "...for the evanescence of all things." The reasons for these postscripts may now be forgotten. The first, concernig misfortune, turns out to be an apt motto for events in my life that shortly followed. The postscript of the second piece might be an ancient oracle's cryptic answer to a question concerning the puzzle of our existence. The last postscript refers to impermanence. There is a moment when things come into existence, and another moment when things go out of existence. Each is a precious point in time, and music is the natural art to express this concept."
| Catalog: | TP144-40515 |
| Publisher: | Theodore Presser Co |
| Composer: | Martin, Robert |
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| Voicing: | Chamber Quintet Mixed Set of Score and Parts |
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| Pages: | 48 |
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