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Chris Bonds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Perhaps a good suite to write today could feature the moons of Jupiter,
>or something. Trouble is, there isn't much legend associated with them
>(unless you consider the Greek gods and demigods for whom they were
>named--but then why drag these chunks of rock into it?)
Or maybe a suite dedicated to famous scientists and/or astronomers--
Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Hawking, etc. -----
Hovhaness has written a Saturn song cycle & Australian composer Eric Gross
a Moonscape. There's also a Copernican symphony (S2; aka the symphony that
time forgot) by Gorecki; while Penderecki's Kosmogonia built scientific
texts by Copernicus & others into his early ECW compositional style.
UK astronomer & broadcaster Patrick Moore (a fair to good amateur composer
in his own right) was associated with a theme compilation called The New
Planets which linked various moons, etc to musical compositions; but i
never saw a copy of it here in Australia)
All the best,
Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>
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