LEE
THE LIGHT THAT FEEDS THE WORLD
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
STRING QUARTET M
INSTRUMENTATION:
ABOUT:
The fourth of Lee Mitchell's Six Poems for String Quartet, The light that feeds the world creates warmth and beauty from the sheer resonance and tone of the ensemble.
The light that fed the world was bleeding drops of incarnadine-gore on oak. Across the chasm lies Eden's dreaming where stirred the swan-white wings that woke.
As sinew stretched across a bow, silent the cock that thricely crowed, and the garden of guilt?
A fresco awash with shadow all a chiffon blue, breathed a confession with an oblique sigh, like the hoot of a wood-owl's lullaby, a wretched, jinxed baptismal name: Gethsemane, the garden of eternal shame. Like a ladle dipped into the sun, dripped like honey, the purple eye of Raphael… thick as mucus on unblemished palm. In the palace of eternal light, the mustering angel hordes took flight, and Michael crouched before the throne with a sword of Abyssinian bone. A cloud of milky oyster-gray, Shekinah's silver-scented spray, wafting through the sanctum, swirled away, across the white glazed marble floor, defying geometric law, like phosphorus on a Mycenaean shore to wither where it lay.
DURATION: 3'00"
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First printing, May 2023
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= 95 Violin I Violin II Viola Cello rit.rit. 6 accel.accel. Legato = 100 16 14 Poem Four of “Six Poems” THE LIGHT THAT FEEDS THE WORLD for String Quartet Copyright © 2022 T.U.X. People’s Music Publishing Company, LLC. International Copyright Secured. Printed and engraved in the U.S.A. All Rights Reserved including Public Performance. Learn more about all of our amazing titles at Tuxpeoplesmusic.com Score Lee Mitchell 2022 SE0074d-01 PERUSALCOPY legaluserequirespurchase
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