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by Gareth Farr | String Quartet
by Gareth Farr | String Quartet
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GARETH FARR<br />
<strong>Owhiro</strong><br />
String Quartet<br />
Facsimile Study Score<br />
PROMETHEAN EDITIONS<br />
WELLINGTON
GARETH FARR<br />
<strong>Owhiro</strong><br />
String Quartet<br />
Facsimile Study Score<br />
Score version May 1996<br />
<strong>Owhiro</strong> was commisioned by the New Zealand String Quartet, with financial<br />
support from Creative New Zealand, during the composer’s 1993 Chamber<br />
Music New Zealand residency.<br />
This edition is a facsimile of the original score provided by the composer.<br />
PEF038<br />
© 1993 Promethean Editions Limited<br />
PO Box 10-143<br />
Wellington<br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
www.prometheaneditions.com<br />
+64 4 473 5033
Programme Note<br />
<strong>Owhiro</strong> Bay in Wellington, New Zealand, looks out over one of the most<br />
dangerous and unpredicatable stretches of water in the world; the name, in<br />
the Maori language, means ‘the place of the god of<br />
darkness’.<br />
During his tenure as composer-in-residence with Chamber Music New<br />
Zealand, Farr lived in a house overlooking the bay, and it was here that<br />
he composed this work, his first recognised string quartet. He says in<br />
his prefatory note to the score that “as the waters change quickly from<br />
sparkling blues to deep grey-greens, from flat glass to churning boil, the<br />
responses of the observer also change”. His own response is made manifest<br />
in the mood and character of the music, rather than in a depiction of the sea<br />
in any sort of impressionistic way.
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