Gabriel Jackson According to Seneca

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied According to Seneca is a substantial work for unaccompanied choir setting a poem of the same name by the American poet Gustaf Sobin. Jackson effectively intersperses sonorous polyphonic passages for full choir with spoken text and murmuring ostinato motifs in free time.

... every wind,

... every wind, according to Seneca, has its origins in some deepseated stellar configuration. once, every word, its every blown vocable, came rippling out of an elsewhere that was. edge, then, towards what? you, who’d scraped pebbles, goaded shadows, hover, now, in the for online perusal only coves of imploded allusion. here, where even the air, this morning, lies as if impacted, yes, in so many exhausted particles, would feed yourself, wouldn’t you, to the slightest interstice, oversight, pry free of your own, inexorable replication. for just beyond would lie the bars, chords, the sonorous reefs of some suggested passage. whisper, then. yes, murmur the wavering blue line of that taut, tenuous horizon: ‘wind,’ ‘waves,’ ‘whitecaps,’ what, in themselves, meant nothing, whereas nothing, you knew, without them (burst, pulverized) could possibly mean. Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005)

Commissioned by Donald Nally and The Crossing with funds provided by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Philadelphia Music Project According to Seneca Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005) GABRIEL JACKSON SOPRANO ° Steady e = c.120 p 3 mf p 3 5 mf p & # œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ œ œ > ...ev ALTO ¢ 5 8 - - - ’ry wind, ev - - ’ry wind, mf p 5 & # p mf p 3 3 5 8 œ œ œ œ j œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ œ œ > ...ev for online perusal only - - - ’ry wind, ev - - ’ry wind, S. A. 5 ° & # ¢ & # 3 3 3 ev -’ry wind, mf œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ 3 3 3 mf p p mf ev -’ry wind, œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ œ > œ œ œ œ œ ‰ œ œ mf 5 5 p p 3 ev -’ry 3 ev -’ry wind, ev -’ry wind, ev -’ry S. 9 ° mf p mf p mf p mf p 3 5 5 & # 5 3 3 5 5 3 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ wind, mf p mf p mf p mf p A. 3 5 5 ¢ & # 5 3 3 5 5 3 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ wind, Duration: 10' First performed by The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, at Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on 5 June 2011. © Oxford University Press 2016 Printed in Great Britain OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MUSIC DEPARTMENT, GREAT CLARENDON STREET, OXFORD OX2 6DP The Moral Rights of the Composer have been asserted. Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL.