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Funerailles

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posted on 2023-06-08, 09:27 authored by Martin Butler
Funérailles was written during the summer of 2005. Despite its title, the piece is not intended to be a morbid or even particularly sombre reflection on death or mortality; rather, it takes as a starting point the ritual and sequential shape associated with funerals or other formal ceremonies. It also makes significant use of bell-like tolling gestures as a way of creating a rather formal, cyclic structure. It can probably best be thought of as an extended study in piano sonorities, at times deep, dark, and resonant, at others vivid and bright.

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  • Published

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OUP

Pages

24.0

ISBN

978-0-19-335673-3

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  • Music Publications

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Work for solo piano, 16 minutes, premiered at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival by William Howard in May, 2006.

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Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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