Dehiscences, Lullay (“Thou nost whider it whil turne”) [2005]

for piano

duration :: 8’

First performance :: Sebastian Berweck — University of Redlands (CA), 16 February 2006

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.                                      

In memory of my father.