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HARMONIC PRACTICES IN OLIVER KNUSSEN'S MUSIC SINCE 1988: PART II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2003

Julian Anderson
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Songs without Voices, composed in 1991–2, is a set of four pieces for small instrumental ensemble comprising flute, cor anglais, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello, lasting about eleven minutes. It follows on naturally from Knussen's Whitman Settings which preceded it, as three of its four movements derive their main melodic lines from purely instrumental settings of Whitman texts from the collection Leaves of Grass. Indeed the first movement's source text, Soon shall the winter's foil be here, is placed by Whitman in the collection immediately after The Voice of the Rain, the final text of Knussen's Whitman Settings.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Volume 57 , Issue 223 , January 2003 , pp. 16 - 41
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© Cambridge University Press 2003

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Footnotes

Part I of this study appeared in Tempo 221 (July 2002), pp.2–13. (Ed.)