HELLAWELL
A Frieze and a Litany
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PIERS HELLAWELL
A Frieze and a Litany
Version for Solo Viola
EDITION PETERS
LEIP ZI G · L ONDO N · NE W YOR K
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Programme Note
This set of two related pieces was originally written for solo cello and takes its title from the poem Man of Assynt by Norman MacCaig. It was written for Robert Irvine as part of his UNICEF solo cello project in 2015, and was premiered by him on 22nd October 2016 in Migvie Church, Aberdeen.
Tempi throughout are fluid, unmarked and unhurried.
A Litany requires a tuning-fork, preferably one with tubular ‘limbs’ rather than those with square edges. The player is required to change from arco to the tuning-fork and back, a transition covered by l.h. pizz. open strings, which can be repeated ad lib. during the change. For the tuning-fork tremolo passages, the two prongs of the fork are ‘scissors’ either side of the portion of string. The most even tremolo is needed.
Piers Hellawell, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes approx.
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PleaseNote:thisline(ostinato openC,D)isoptional (L.H.pizz)
Likeachant-nottoberhythmicallymarkedbutflowing,unhurried consord.
swapbowfor Y-tuningfork
TremoloonCsulpont, startingatbridgeandmoving slowlybacktowardfinger-board: stringshouldbebetweenprongs offork
[C’scanrepeatadlibtocover junctionswithtuning-fork]
(dim.anienteastuning-fork approachesfinger-board) (replacetuning-forkwithbow)
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(swapbowfor Y-tuningfork) gliss.
TremoloonCsulpont, startingatbridgeandmoving slowlybacktowardfinger-board: stringshouldbebetweenprongsoffork mp c.10′′
pocosf + psub. [D’sadlib.,asbefore] . + + + . + +
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Piers Hellawell
Piers Hellawell (b. 1956) has worked with leading artists such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Schubert Ensemble, Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Hilliard Ensemble, who toured his Hilliard Songbook pieces worldwide. Orchestral works include Cors de chasse (for Håkan Hardenberger, Jonas Bylund and the Philharmonia Orchestra) and the BBC commission Dogs and Wolves (2006), while Syzygy was premiered in 2013 by the Stockholm Chamber Brass/Swedish Chamber Orchestra. 2016 saw Hellawell’s Wild Flow commissioned for the BBC Proms, and a UK tour of Up by the Roots – a collaboration with poet Sinéad Morrissey – as well as a composer feature at Detroit’s Great Lakes Festival. Hellawell has been Professor of Composition at Queen’s University of Belfast since 2002, and has spoken widely on issues of music and cultural ownership as Gresham Professor of Music in London, 2000–2003.
Piers Hellawell (*1956) hat mit führenden Interpreten wie dem London Symphony Orchestra, dem Schubert Ensemble und Evelyn Glennie zusammengearbeitet. Das Hilliard Ensemble brachte sein Hilliard Songbook weltweit zur Aufführung. Für Orchester enstanden u. a. Cors de chasse (für Håkan Hardenberger, Jonas Bylund und das Philharmonia Orchestra), das BBC-Auftragswerk Dogs and Wolves (2006) sowie das 2013 vom Stockholm Chamber Brass/ Swedish Chamber Orchestra uraufgeführte Syzygy. 2016 folgten Wild Flow für die BBC Proms, Up by the Roots – ein Gemeinschaftswerk mit der Dichterin Sinéad Morrissey, das in ganz Großbritannien auf Tournee ging – sowie ein Komponistenporträt beim Great Lakes Festival in Detroit. Seit 2002 ist Hellawell Professor an der Queen’s University in Belfast. Als Inhaber der Londoner Gresham-Professur für Musik setzte er sich 2000–2003 mit Fragen des kulturellen Eigentums in der Musik auseinander.