Four Mythological Pieces by Evan Schwartzman Sheet Music for Piano Solo at Sheet Music Direct

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Artist Evan Schwartzman

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Evan Schwartzman

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 35

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Evan Schwartzman

Level 4

Product ID 1026712

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

Four pieces for solo piano on mythological themes.
The four pieces are: Voyage to Cythera, Circes Palace, Sirens, and Erinyes, the Mist Walker.
I. Voyage to Cythera (Κύθηρα) describes a sea voyage to the home of Aphrodite. The music captures some of the intense ambivalence of Baudelaires poem of the same title, alternating between feelings of expectation and dread.
II. Circes Palace describes Odysseus crew coming upon the enchantress Circe (Κίρκη) in her stone palace, sitting at her loom. She invites them to a feast, where she drugs them and transforms them into swine.
III. Sirens (Σειρνας) also paints a scene from the Odyssey. The Sirens were sea nymphs who would entice sailors to their deaths through their seductive singing. When Odysseus and his men draw near to the Sirens, he orders them to stuff their ears with beeswax so that they cannot hear clearly. Odysseus has himself bound to the mast of his ship, so that he can hear the song without risking his life.
IV. The Erinyes (Ερινυες) were an early Greek form of the Roman Furies. They were chthonic deities, born from the blood shed by Uranus when he was castrated by Cronus. Their role was to punish men and women who had broken natural law, usually by driving their victims mad. The piece opens with the victim wandering about in mist, after which he is set upon and torn to pieces in a frenzy.

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