Sheet Music: ScoreMy song is love unknown : for piano quartet / Paul Stanhopeby Paul Stanhope (2000)
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The title My Song is Love Unknown is taken from a hymn
tune by John Ireland. I
was initially attracted to this hymn tune because of its sense of
compassion and pathos,
during a time when, it seemed to me, the English-speaking world
was edging towards
authoritarianism, especially in regard to the treatment of its
most vulnerable citizens.
Musically, this piano quartet is quite like a Chorale Prelude in
that it uses a wellknown
sacred melody and then weaves new material around it. In a
structural sense, it
is also similar to a set of variations, the main difference being
that only fragments of
the tune are heard at one time until the very end, where the tune
is heard in its entirety
for the first time.
Written in a symmetrical form with seven small conjoining
sections, the piece is
structured according to the progression of the hymn tune. The
material begins lyrically
but gradually becomes more diffuse. In the central panel the
music becomes
increasingly argumentative as fragments of the hymn tune are
juxtaposed against the
increasingly assertive accompanying textures. Here the
ambiguities of conflict do not
so much resolve as decide to co-exist as the tension dissipates.
Tonal ambiguities
persist even as we hear John Ireland's beautiful hymn stated in
its entirety for the first
time.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (20p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Professional.
Duration: 9 mins
First performance by Australian Piano Quartet — 17 Aug 00. Llewelyn Hall, Canberra School of Music
Includes programme note.
Work revised November 2009.
Typeset edition.
This edition produced Nov 09.
ISMN: 979-0-67309-789-6
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