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979-0-57020-683-4 Sinfin Parados – Two performing scores Available at MusicRoom Buy now (£12.95)

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Sinfin parados is an arrangement for two players of Sinfin, for solo vibraphone. Originally composed in January-July 2000, this was the third in a group of works for wind and percussion responding to the powerful imagery of the great rose windows of Chartres Cathedral.  It reflects upon the South Rose, a bright Apocalypse vision, showing the Deity surrounded by eight censing angels, the four beasts of the Apocalypse and by twenty-four musicians bearing a variety of plucked instruments.  The number seven is of significance in the Apocalypse, and in the architecture of this Cathedral. 

So Sinfin has seven sections forming a complete circle, from skeletal mirror-chord sequence through plainchant and increasingly dance-like developments over the implicit 27-bar chord-sequence to a climax followed by a return of the chords, now given in full.

Details

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Duration
9 minutes
Premiere

Chris Brannick and Richard Benjafield, National Centre for Early Music, York, 13th April 2002

Scoring
2 Vibraphone
Composition date
2002

Performances

23 October 2005

Merit School of Music, Gottlieb Concert Hall, 38 S. Peoria, Chicago

Ensemble CUBE: Dane Richeson, Mike Truesdell (vibraphones)

14 March 2005

CUBE (Chicago's premiere New Music Ensemble) live from Studio 1 of WFMT 98.7 FM

Dane Richeson, Mike Truesdell (vibraphones)