The Second Key

Davies, Tansy

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Duration

12m 00s

Composed

2011

Instrumentation

Flexible Ensemble with Solo Instrument

Scoring

Flexible ensemble with keyboard and solo Mezzo-soprano

Availability

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About the work

The Second Key, for voice and ensemble, explores a text by 12th Century troubadour Guilhelm X. Clouds of

glissandi drift and separate to reveal semi-improvised instrumental sounds and figurations; the scene is set for

a song that appears, then dissolves back into the mysterious landscape.

 

 

Origin

Open Score commission 2011