Carter - Scrivo in Vento for Flute Solo (1991)

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    Elliott Carter

    SCRIVO IN VENTO

    for flute alone

    HENDON MUSIC

    BOOSEY&HAWKES

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    SCRIVO IN VENTO, for flute alone, dedicated to the wonderful flutist andfriend, Robert Aitken, takes its title from a poem of Petrarch who lived in andaround Avignon from 1326 to 1353. It uses the flute to present contrastingmusical ideas and registers to suggest the paradoxical nature of the poem.Itwas first performed July 20, 1991, (coincidentally on Petrarch's 687th birth-day) at the XVIIIe Rencontres de la Chartreuse of the Centre Acanthes devotedto my music at the Festival of Avignon, France, by Robert Aitken.

    -E.C.Beato in sogno et di languir contento,d'abbracciar l'ombre et seguir l'aura estiva,nuoto per mar che non a fondo 0 riva;soleo onde, e 'n rena fondo, et scrivo in vento;e '1sol vagheggio si ch' elli a gia spentocol suo splendor la mia vertu visiva;et una cerva errante et fugitivacaccio con un bue zoppo e 'nfermo et lento.Cieco et stanco ad ogni altro ch' al mio danno,ilqual di et notte palpitando cerco,sol Amor et Madonna et Morte chiamo.Cosi venti anni, grave et lungo affanno,pur lagrime et sospiri et dolor merco:in tale stella presi l'esca et l'amo!

    - Petrarch, RIME SPARSE 212

    Blessed in sleep and satisfied to languish, to embrace shadows,and to pursue the summer breeze, I swim through a sea that hasno floor or shore, I plow the waves and found my house on sandand write on the wind;and I gaze yearning at the sun so that he has already put out withhis brightness-my power of sight; and I pursue a wandering,fleeing doe with a lame, sick, slow ox.Blind and weary to everything except my harm, which Itrembling seek day and night, Lcall only Love and my Lady andDeath;thus for twenty years-heavy, long labor-I have gained onlytears and sighs and sorrow: under such a star I took the bait andthe hook!

    - Translated by Robert M. Durling**From PETRARCH'S LYRlC POEMS, edited by Robert M.Durling, Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, Copyright 1976 by Robert M. Durling.Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

    Duration: ca. 5 minutes

    eThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standardfor Information Sciences-Performance of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39 481984.

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