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1 OnDemand Tavener, John Schuon Lieder Score for sale (North America): htt:// Score for sale (UK, Euroe and other territories): htt:// Information about the work and materials for hire: htt:// Score begins on the next age. Chester Music Limited Part of the Music Sales Grou

2 This work was commissioned by the Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois for its Centennial Season; by the Cheltenham International Festival of Music with funds rovided by Arts Council England and the Britten-Pears Foundation; and by the Schubert Ensemble Trust. It was first erformed at the Cheltenham Festival on 16th July 2004, at the Pitville Pum Room, Cheltenham, by Patricia Rozario and the Schubert Ensemble. United States remiere at the Ravinia Festival on 29th July 2004, by Patricia Rozario and the Corigliano String Quartet. SCORING Solo sorano 4 Tibetan temle bowls (high, medium, medium-low, very low*) String quartet Piano *any variation in size between 10cm and 3cm diameter, for examle, 10cm, 12cm, 24cm, 3cm. Exact itch is not imortant. Duration: c. 6 minutes Score/iano art on sale: Order No. CH6814 String and ercussion arts on sale: Order No. CH These materials are also available on hire COMPOSER S NOTE Schuon Lieder are settings of nineteen oems taken from more than three thousand written by Frithjof Schuon, most of them dating from the last four years of his life. Many are mystical love songs of an almost alable femininity, and they reresent a distillation of Schuon s magisterial and erennialist doctrine. My songs are scored for sorano voice, string quartet, iano and four Tibetan temle bowls. Each one is based on a series of 2 notes: these are, in themselves, musical mirrors of Divine Love. Like the oems, the songs are essences of a Sufi and child-like character. Most are ecstatic and sontaneous reactions to the German oetry, and each is searated from the receding song by one or more austere canons for string quartet, based on material from receding songs. The rigorous rhythmic ermutations of the Tibetan temle bowls lend a hieratic and ritualistic asect to the often sacred nature of the lieder. For me, Song XII forms the centreiece, and sums u the inner meaning of the whole work, for it sets a oem written by the young Sufi Sheikh after an unhay love affair which drew him ever closer to God. As Schuon writes: It is not so much the earthly or the human as the quest of the soul for eternal Beauty that lay of longing and hoe and fidelity and liberation. For this is the doctrine, indeed the vision of God, that ultimately results from all rofound love. The work ends with an instrumental Postlude referring back to the first song. Schuon Lieder is dedicated to Catherine Schuon, in gratitude for her friendshi; and also as widow of Frithjof Schuon, in whose mystical resence I live. J.T. Frithjof Schuon ( ) has been described as one of the greatest metahysicians that has ever lived. He was a Sufi, and along with René Guénon, he exounded the Religio Perennis, a doctrine that teaches that beneath the outward forms of all religions, there is the same essential Truth. He wrote many metahysical books, which won the raise of such diverse figures as T.S. Eliot and William Stodhart, who called him the very cosmic Intellect itself. Schuon was also a gifted ainter and oet. Although his rose writings were of a formidable intellectual stature, he believed that a child-like nature was essential for any ath to God, and this child-like nature finds exression in his oetry, written in German at the end of his long life. His disciles, who were from diverse faiths and came to him from all over the world, knew him as Sheikh Isa. He was born in Basle, Switzerland, later moving to the U.S.A., where he was adoted by both the Crow and Sioux Indian tribes.

3 Tibetan Temle Bowls Violin I Violin II Viola Transcendent and very still q = c.60 High Medium oss. Medium-low for Catherine Schuon SCHUON LIEDER Im Jetzt des Herzens liegt dein ganzes Leben I Herbstlaub very ure Herbst-blät - ter John Tavener Very low die ses was ist - Bil-des Sinn? Cello Piano Transcendent and very still q = c.60 una corda Ped. Ge-dich - te kom-men sät zu mei-nem Oh - re, (u.c.) Coyright 2004 Chester Music Ltd. CH6814 All rights reserved Printed in England rev. 7.08

4 42 oco f Monumental q = c.66 oco f Was Monumental q = c.66 II oco f oco f oco f oco f oco f ich bin? semre marcato Ped. Ped Brah - ma Sa - tyam und nichts Ped.

5 64 ecstatic oco f Rd oco f - h im heil-gen Hain. Und * * Krish-na kam; m m 10 Sein Ant - litz strahl-te wie die Mor gen oco f rö - te. Er sielt ein Lied auf sei ber - ner Zau - - flö - te Ein * and reresent microtones, the characteristic breaks in the voice of Eastern music.

6 Freely and tenderly q = c.6 Freely and tenderly q = c.6 legato Ped. IV very ure 3 3 Wenn Lie-ben - de sich mil - de Wor - te sa gen Denk 3 nicht, die Re - de wer - de ganz ver- geh - en: Ped

7 Das Wort war vor - her in der E - wig keit Ped Und wird in Got - tes We-sen - heit be-steh - en Ped

8 161 rit ses Brie - fe rit. 3 A temo Sein wah-res We - sen ist ein Weg oss. A temo 31 (l.v. semre) 164 molto rit. 3 zur Tie - fe. molto rit. attacca Q 166 Canon à 4 A temo q = c.60 m senza sord. senza sord.

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10 209 bell-like Wenn () du () () er - wachst, () dann hab nicht gleich im Sinn Wer, was du bist;

11 Ko - to er len (l.v.) Schwer - müt - ge Sai - ten oco f l.v klän - ge hin wie Trä nen; (l.v.)

12 (q = c.72) oss. con sord. trem. con sord. trem. con sord. trem. con trem. sord. (q = c.72) (l.v.) Z 20 Always moving forwards (q = c.72) m Ver - gäng - lich - keit des Z Always moving forwards (q = c.72) oco f

13 4 IX 272 Con molto intensità e con molto esressione semre* q = c.88 oco Con molto intensità e con molto esressione semre* q = c.88 oco oco oco oco oco oco oco oco oco Ped. 27 oco oco oco f molto ff oss. molto molto ff oss. ff oss. molto ff oss. molto ff oss. oco oco oco oco oco oco oco oco * Every note must be layed with the utmost intensity

14 279 C1 f t oco f m C1 und M - - y: (l.v.) 282 f Licht und Sie gel - schild. (l.v.) 28 D1 oco D1 oco oco oco oco oco oco oco oco oco

15 37 With gentle, shimmering beauty (q = c.60) XI Morgenrot 67 oss. With gentle, shimmering beauty (q = c.60) u.c. Ped. (e = c.120) 38 m gently exressive Der Mor - gen schau - ert ü - ber den Zy- res - - sen, (e = c.120) gently exressive gently exressive (l.v.)

16 m esress. Ein letz - tes Traum - bild wird vom Wind ver-weht. esress. esress. L1 368 oss. L1 u.c.

17 440 f molto esress. frag Nach kei-nem Na- men, noch nach Mein m und Dein; Lie - be ist al - les, was das 79 oco f molto esress. oco f molto esress. oco f molto esress. oco f 443 S1 Welt - meer hegt, f S1 ff marcatiss. l.v.

18 80 Very slow q = c.40 molto esress. 44 Und Tod in con sord. molto esress. con sord. molto esress. Lie - be ist der Lie - be sein. oss. oss. oss. con sord. molto esress. con sord. molto esress. oss. oss. Very slow q = c Temo I q = c.92 Temo I q = c.92 3 l.v. 3 attacca

19 88 13 Z1 f m Ich hör - te des Zi - geu- nersgei - gen - siel; Die Me Z1 oco f - - lo-dei oco f oco f oco f oco f sonore War 16 lie - bes - schwer; sie sang, als brä - che ihm Das Herz ent - zwei. (l.v.)

20 89 19 f m sim. m m oco f sonore 22 A2 With great melancholy and nostalgia (q = c.84) molto esress. sub. Im Men-schen her (like a gysy violin) - zen ist ein Schmer zens kern, Und ist doch süß; Wir m sub. sub. sub. A2 With great melancholy and nostalgia (q = c.84) sub. oco f sonore

21 Wild, rimordial, ecstatic q = c.104 XVI Lall molto f ff oss. martellato ff oss. martellato Wild, rimordial, ecstatic q = c.104 ff oss. martellato Ped. ff oss. martellato ff oss. martellato 89 molto f (in the style of Indian singing) Lal-l Lal-l Lal-l Lal-l Lal-l la-la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la la-la-la Lal - l (l.v.)

22 92 G2 G2 oco f Ecstatic q = 80 (molto f ) Als oco f oco f oco f oco f Lal Ecstatic q = 80 - l Yo - g -schwa- r t semi-imrovisatory (l.v.) m fand. (l.v.)

23 699 Very ure and serene always very still q = c.6 Was Erd und XVIII oss. Him - mel - reich zu - sam - men - hält, Ist 117 arco arco arco 702 das Ge - bet du schul - dest es der Welt. f T2 Canon à q = c.60 molto f attacca molto f arco molto f molto f

24 XIX Ein Lied With great inner eace and tranquility (q = c.60) 713 m Es gibt nicht Grö m m m - ße, m die nicht Schön heit wirkt In ih - rem