Dehiscences, Lullay ("Thou nost whider it whil turne") (2005)
for piano with cassette

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Duration: 8'
Dedication: Sebastian Berweck

Performance History

2/16/06 - Sebastian Berweck - University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

2/18/06 - Sebastian Berweck - Center for New Music and Audio Technologies - Berkeley, CA

3/1/06 - Sebastian Berweck - SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

4/4/06 - Sebastian Berweck - BKA, Berlin, Germany

2/16/10 - Mark Knoop - City University London, UK

 

Program Note

  Dehiscence: the discharging of the contents of an organic enclosure by splitting along a natural seam.

  Lullay: a soothing refrain, or a genre of medieval English poetry utilizing such a refrain, as to lull a child to sleep:

Lullay, lullay, litel child,

thy fote is in the whele;

Thou nost whider it whil turne,

to wo other to whele.

Lullaby, lullaby, little child,

Your foot is in the wheel;

You know not which way it will turn,

To misery or to prosperity.

 

In memory of my father.

 

 

 

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