Upon Silence: Mezzo Soprano & Viols, Score

Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571512518
• ISBN13: 9780571512515
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 999 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.