An Essay on the American Topography

by Stephen Webb

for harp and tape

Empty sheet

Stephen Webb

An Essay on the American Topography

Music Finland

Description

The tape part is built from two early jazz pieces dating from 1920's Chicago; a piano suite by cornettist Bix Beiderbeck and Virgina Liston's Titanic Blues. The harp reminisces a bygone era while the tape intersperses Virginia Liston’s fateful lyrics about the Titanic. Together, they coalesce to create a sonic watery shroud.


Instrumentation

hp, tape


Category

Works for Solo Instrument


Premiere

Bengi Canatan. April 17, 2018, Helsinki,


Commisioned by / dedications

Written for Bengi Canatan


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Archive number

MF34228


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