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Sheet Music: Performance PartsFlat Earth : for didjeridu, string quartet and percussion x 3 / Romano Crivici.by Romano Crivici (2006)
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Flat Earth was the first work I composed that included the Didjeridu. It was written specifically to provide an opportunity for collaboration between Mark Atkins and the Elektra String Quartet in 1996. It also provided me with an opportunity to explore and express something of my own personal relationship with the vast Australian outback, and came to be a core work in the Elektra String Quartet repertoire for quite a few years.
…distant hills, and vast, flat
earth
A timeless dream, as dusk hangs low
Yet always this, and only ever this,
In silence sings, and holds, enfolds, the ebb and
flow…
(R. Crivici, 28th March,
2013)
As I prepared the string version of Flat Earth publication, I started, as I am wont to do, to hear more colours, and needed to expand and develop it in ways that called for an orchestra.....
And so it is done. A few sections changed in terms of metre, so as to make it easier to conduct; apart from that, it is much the same structurally as the string version.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 8 performance parts (73p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Complex, but contemporary groove based writing.
Duration: 23 mins
1. Prelude: Ebb and Flow -- 2. Allegro.
Commissioned by Elektra String Quartet.
First performance by Elektra String Quartet, Mark Atkins — 9 Aug 96.
"Romano Crivici's Flat Earth reminds me of interminable trips across central Australia. The road is long and straight, parting a red, dry sea. At first it seems unchanging, repetitive, but as shapes and colours – or, in the case of Crivici's music, sounds and timbres – roll by, you tune in to the detail, gradually hearing more and more. A squeak here, a huff there, a quick glissando: sparks of colour in a fascinating sonic landscape." Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald, 26th May, 2018
The composer notes the following reviews:
"..... This exciting work, (Flat Earth) features shifting rhythms, textures and musical mirages that weave around the didjeridu with a palpable sense of drama."Not surprisingly the writing for strings is strong and the passionate performances precise, nuanced and assured, …. Lovers of high quality contemporary string writing will find plenty to enjoy" Lisa MacKinney, Limelight Magazine, July 2018 ★★★★½
Originally part of the Elektra String Quartet national and international touring repertoire, revised and developed in 2014-15. The revised and extended final version was first recorded in 2016.
Typeset edition.
This edition produced Aug 17.
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This work is also available in the following products:
Score: Flat Earth : for didjeridu, string quartet and percussion x 3 / Romano Crivici.
CD: Flat earth / Romano Crivici.
Digital Audio Album: Ebb & Flow : Elektra String Quartet / Romano Crivici.
This work also exists as the following versions:
- Didjeridu with full orchestra
- Browse other works for Octets: Didjeridu, 3 percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello
- Browse other works by Romano Crivici
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