Stacy Garrop: String Quartet No. 4: Illuminations
Based On Paintings From The Book The Hours Of Catherine Of Cleves (c. 1440)
string quartet (STR 4TET)
Stacy Garrop: String Quartet No. 4: Illuminations
Based On Paintings From The Book The Hours Of Catherine Of Cleves (c. 1440)
string quartet (STR 4TET)
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About
Nicholas Yasillo's wife was much taken with medieval-era decorated volumes of prayers and religious scenes, known as the Book of Hours. As such, he commissioned Garrop for a work in her honor. Garrop appropriately uses her String Quartet No. 4 to describe not just five scenes from The Hours by Catherine of Cleves (c. 1400's), but a reading of the book and personal discovery of each illustration (Illuminations). The work was written for the Cecilia Quartet, who gave the premiere in September, 2011. For advanced perfomers. Dur.: 19'
Contents
- The Book of Hours is opened
- Catherine of Cleves prays to the Virgin and Child
- Singing Angels
- Interlude (Book of Hours)
- Christ carrying the Cross
- Interlude (Book of Hours)
- Mouth of Hell
- Anguished Souls
- Trinity Enthroned
- The Book of Hours is closed
