Burial Ground
Study Score | Woodwind Quintet
Study Score | Woodwind Quintet
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Christos Hatzis<br />
<strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong><br />
Woodwind Quintet<br />
Facsimile Performance Set<br />
PROMETHEAN EDITIONS<br />
WELLINGTON
Christos Hatzis<br />
<strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong><br />
Woodwind Quintet<br />
Facsimile Performance Set<br />
Score version December 1993<br />
<strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong> was commissioned by 5th<br />
Spiecies, based in Toronto, Canada.<br />
This edition is a facsimile of the original score provided by the composer.<br />
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Instrumentation<br />
Flutes<br />
Oboe<br />
Clarinet in BÏ<br />
Bassoon<br />
Horns in F<br />
TRANSPOSED SCORE
Programme Notes<br />
<strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong> is based on the well-known ground ‘When I am laid in earth...’<br />
from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. The original aria appears either fragmented<br />
or in its entirety and with varying degrees of comprehensibility throughout<br />
the piece. Its harmony and accompaniment are nearly always preserved, but<br />
they are masked by superimposed music drawn predominantly from the<br />
early part of the twentieth centry and by complex sound textures resulting<br />
from the use of extended woodwind techniques. Formally, the piece is a<br />
series of musical and sonic ‘wanderings’ with the Purcell original acting as<br />
departure and/or arrival points. The title - a pun - refers to the work’s emotional<br />
as well as its formal character. The text of the original aria reads as<br />
follows:<br />
When I am laid in earth<br />
Let my wrongs create<br />
No trouble in thy breast.<br />
Remember me, but oh!<br />
Forget my fate.<br />
The composer writes:<br />
<strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong> is dedicated to the memory of my late friend Chari Polatos<br />
who was killed in a car crash on the night of May 7, 1992 on his way home<br />
from a 5th Species concert. A self-taught singer and instrumentalist of<br />
extraordinary talent, Chari was a unique individual. His idiosyncratic temperament<br />
and controversial ideas on life and art have been a standard against<br />
which I had to measure myself as an artist and a person for the better part of<br />
a decade. My musical choices in <strong>Burial</strong> <strong>Ground</strong> were triggered by memories<br />
from this friendship and by the text of the original aria.’
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