Casken, John: Shadowed Pieces
for violin and piano
score and parts
Setting: Violin and Piano
Length: 36 pages
Format: 23,1 x 30,3 cm
Weight: 0.18 kg
Published: March 1, 2009
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED13084
Other reference: ED 13084
ISMN: 9790220127397
These six short pieces might more readily be described as fantasies, each with its own sound-world but linked by shared material. The mood of each of these short movements is guided by an imaginary landscape, one shadowed by the blackened tree, a far-away song, shadows past, a quickening moon, forgotten voices, and by the harrowed land. The title of the last movement plays on the word harrow, something that is used to break up the soil, but also bringing with it suggestions of a land both pained and wounded.