The Field of Reeds Idyll f0r Violin & Harp
David Lewiston Sharpe
Note The field of reeds is a motif from ancient Egyptian theology, and constituted their vision of ‘paradise’. Ostensibly a symbolic gesture which expressed the idea that life continued after the present one, with work in the fields carrying on as much as any likelihood of leisure and rest, the reeds are depicted as more extensive and substantial than those we know in ‘reality’. It was a scene of waterways and an idyllic rural life not entirely unrelated to the ways in which the West Country in England carries notions of ‘paradise’: a town-dwellers idyll – and that it was to be found in the ‘West’ connects with the Egyptian location of the Duat, the heavenly land between the horizon and the setting sun. Originally scored for violin and piano in 2010, this piece was arranged especially for violin and harp, for Mr and Mrs Yasser El Serafi, in 2015.
Scoring Violin Harp
Duration: 6 mins approx.
for Amelie Roper
The Field of Reeds Idyll for Violin & Harp David Lewiston Sharpe
Adagietto ed espressivo q = 50
Violin
E§F§GbA§ p pp legato poss. BbC§D§
-
-
-
-
G§
Lentorello (q = 52)
Bb
poco più f
poco accel. -
p
cresc.
poco più f
Db
Bb
B§
mp
pp
poco p
pp
5
pp
B§
près de la table nat.
Harp
8
Copyright © 2010, 2015 by David Lewiston Sharpe
2
sostenuto 11
-
-
-
14
accel.
più dim.
dim.
-
-
p
-
ppp mp
ten.
p
pp dolce e delicatiss.
G§
Gb
Più animato (lentorello)
17
-
pp sfzpp
dim.
D§
-
-
3
p
23
mp molto mf meno f
p subito
dim.
Poco largamente
pp
meno f D§
p
mp
D#
dim.
poco p
cresc.
meno f
poco più f
26
20
sul D
p
4
accel. - - - poco più animato
mp
poco cresc.
poco più f
più f
Eb
-
-
-
-
-
Mesto e struggimento
mp mesto
p
ten.
sim.
più espress.
(Eb Bb) dolce
-
ten.
35
pp
-
più f
poco pp poco cresc.
rit.
32
29
ten.
5
38
p
. gliss
più dim.
poco accel.
-
poco cresc.
44
-
-
-
-
rit.
-
-
poco più f
-
-
Lentorello
p
41
meno f
dim.
p
poco cresc.
più f
E§ più espress.
6
47
mp
poco rit.
50
-
accel.
-
poco mf
cresc.
Eb
-
-
A tempo
ten.
mp
E§
p C# Gb Eb mf G§ poco dim.
cresc.
p
Più calmato, come prima 53
pizz. vib.
pp
Bb pp delicato
B§ mp
arco
p
près de la table
Gb
7 56
nat.
poco p
G§
cresc.
poco f
B§
dim.
poco più f
A tempo
mp
mp
D§
Bb B§
mp
Db
62
59
Poco più con rubato
Bb
8
65
poco cresc. più f
68
poco f
cresc.
molto dim.
p subito
71
p
p
pp dolce e delicatiss.
mp
mp
più espress.
più p
più dim.
sost. mp Eb Gb 75 sul D più p pp p trem. pp
molto
G§
12-15 August 2010, arr. 8 April 2015