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Email to PurchaseSailing to Byzantium
Official edition of "Sailing to Byzantium" by Brian Inglis, published by Composers Edition (ce-bi1stb1), scored for 木管乐器. Edition includes 1 part, 34 pages.
- Composer
- Brian Inglis
- Publisher
- Composers Edition
- Catalog No.
- ce-bi1stb1
- Instrumentation
- 木管乐器
- Instruments
- Specifications
- 1 parts · 34 pages (Single Score)
- Purchase Orders
- cdiyao@gmail.com (Email to Purchase)
Parts & Score Materials
| Part Name | Instrument | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| 次中音笛/中音笛/高音笛/超高音笛/Garklein Recorder | Recorder, Recorder, Recorder | 34 pages |
Work & Edition Details
Sailing to Byzantium takes its inspiration primarily from the poem of the same name by WB Yeats, and from the mythological philosophy underlying the poem which has its fullest expression in Yeats' prose book A Vision. The themes of the book and poem, and hence the piece, are time and transformation; these themes led me to a further source of inspiration, TS Eliot's Four Quartets (in particular the first poem). In Sailing to Byzantium Yeats evokes a vision of a journey through sacred, purifying fire to arrive at the fabled paradise of Byzantium, a place where everything is transmuted into art and the poet himself is transformed into an exquisitely crafted golden bird.
