AGITPROP

AGITPROP

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Scoring & Instrumentation
bass clarinet, marimba, audio fixed media, audience participation
Alternate Title
AGITPROP
Year Authored (or revised)
Duration (min)
13
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Audio

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Description

I. O tempora!
II. O mores!
III. O di inmortales! [Chorale "Es ist genug" - Aria]

Agitprop was commissioned by the Alba Music Festival (Italy) for the duo Transient Canvas.
The piece is a response to our current political climate of Orwellian doublespeak, profiteering, hypocrisy, and a corrupt oligarchy. Es ist genug!

There is a fixed media stereo file to be played back during the piece. Additionally, there are multiple individual audio files to be downloaded by audience members onto their smartphones and played during the piece.

 

 

Comments

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC): "Against Cataline."
Published in: "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge." London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856.

Caius Memmius (d.100 BC): "On a Corrupt Oligarchy" [translation by John Selby Watson in 1852]
Published in: Bryan, William Jennings, ed. "The world’s famous orations." New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1906.

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Text Language - Non English

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Text Source/Author
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC): "Against Cataline."
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Ensemble Type
duo inst or voices
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Instrument
bass clarinet , marimba
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