Robert Hughes » Madrigal
Madrigal
Madrigal
Mixed chorus a cappella
Program notes from the composer
AMO ERGO SUM (I love, therefore I am) from which “Madrigal” is excerpted, derives its inspiration, method and form from the style and substance of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. To a large degree the actual musical construction was suggested by musical techniques employed in the Cantos. However, all the notes are my own.
Ezra Pound’s life was a dramatic one and his Cantos are its intellectual autobiography. His life – aesthete, linguist, expatriate, political being, crackpot economist, prisoner in a barbed wire cage, octogenarian with ebbing mind – is reflected in AMO ERGO SUM, as are the major themes of his poetry – the process of nature as hypostasis, the value of tradition as modus vivendi, and the corruption of Usury, sin against nature.
Edited or Arranged by: Margaret Fisher
Authored (or revised): 1974
Published: 2026
Text source: Ezra Pound, from Canto LXXXI, from THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND copyright © 1948 by Ezra Pound; used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Duration (minutes): 3
Book format: performance score
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