Carmina solis et lunae
Carmina solis et lunae
Violin, Viola, and Cello (or Contrabass)
Composer's Note:
Written as a Composition Fellow for the 2nd Annual Wyoming Festival-New Music in the Mountains, August 2-11, 2017, and in recognition of the full solar eclipse on Aug 21, 2017.
Carmina solis et lunae is a work that draws its inspiration from the full solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. While it shares some motivic and thematic material from a work I wrote in 2014 for the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) New Music Ensemble called Canticle of Winter, it essentially develops along the lines of a through-composed improvisation that takes the music to new places. Latin for “hymn to the sun and moon,” Carmina chronicles the idea of the sun and moon in a celestial dance as the moon passes in front of the sun, as seen from the earth. The music is lyrical, yet playful in nature, and the climax comes in a stoic moment as, for a brief period the two are seen as one from our vantage point on earth.
Authored (or revised): 2017
Published: 2025
Duration (minutes): 7
First performance: August 10, 2017, by Holly Mulcahy, violin; Anna Kruger, viola; and Rick Barber, bass, at the Wyoming Festival-New Music in the Mountains, Grand Teton National Park.
Book format: Score + 4 Parts
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