DAVID MASLANKA. Eternal Garden FOUR SONGS FOR CLARINET & PIANO SCORE IN C MASLANKA PRESS NEW YORK

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1 DAVID MASLANKA Eternal Garden FOUR SONGS FOR CLARINET & IANO SCORE IN C MASLANKA RESS NEW YORK

2 Duration: 27 ublished in 2012 by Maslanka ress (ascap) 420 West 56th St. #10, New York City, New York Music preparation by Matthew Maslanka Version 1.0 All rights reserved. International Copyright Secured. You may reproduce this music by any means for your own personal use. Commercial redistribution is prohibited. ublic performance of this work must be licensed through ascap. Commercial recordings of this work must be licensed through Maslanka ress. Copyright Maslanka ress, 2012 M ps

3 Eternal Garden: Four Songs for Clarinet and iano was commissioned by, and is respectfully dedicated to: eggy Dees Frank Kowalsky John Weigand Elizabeth Gunlogson Steve Becraft London-Silas Shavers and the Lambda Rho chapter of the hi Mu Alpha Sinfonia of Northwest Mississii Community College Jeremy W. Reynolds Kenneth Grant Richard MacDowell Deborah Chodacki Osiris J. Molina J. David Harris Jeffrey R. Boehmer James Campbell David Odom Tod Kerstetter David Shea Joseph M. Eller David Gresham Dr. Carol Jessup Andrea Steele Kip E. Franklin Mina Son

4 rogram Note It is my task as a composer not to presume from the start that I know what the music is suosed to be; my job is to listen, and to follow the impulse that comes through me as faithfully as I can. What came out in this case are four deeply meditative songs. After some reflection I can say that this music is about the need to stop and simply to be; to stop thinking, stop planning, stop worrying, stop presuming to know how we are suosed to act in the world. Life as we are doing it on this planet has begun to look suicidal. There has to be a different path. I was given images of widespread suffering and destruction. This music is about the transformation of suffering. I have no illusion that a single piece of mine will end world suffering, but it opens the possibility of real peace in me as an individual. There is not path to world peace; peace is the path, and it begins inside each person. david maslanka rogram Listing Eternal Garden: Four Songs David Maslanka (b. 194) for Clarinet and iano (200) I. Lamentation II. On Chestnut Hill * III. Elegy: August 6, 1945 IV. Eternal Garden * On Chestnut Hill was originally composed in 1989 for chorus, clarinet, and vibraphone as part of a set of six songs on poems by Richard Beale, under the title A Litany for Courage and the Seasons. On Chestnut Hill I lean against the wind. I walk among the grass and the Solomon s Seal And watch the yellow moon begin its rise. I lie where the deer have lain, and ask the skies Impossible questions: is this phantom real Who made both night and day? Is it wise to wish the night away? August 6, 1945: the day the atomic bomb was droed on Hiroshima.

5 ETERNAL GARDEN FOUR SONGS FOR CLARINET & IANO

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7 Score in C Quite slow (q = 48) freely sempre ETERNAL GARDEN Four Songs for Clarinet and iano I. Lamentation DAVID MASLANKA in tempo take time: let colors emerge and mix p p 8 14 Faster, and with continuous accel. cresc. grad. cresc. grad. ( ) Suddenly a bit slower accel rapidly ( ) Copyright 2009 David Maslanka

8 2 18 Suddenly slower (q = ca. 76) flexible, expressive ff ff 21 tempo ad lib. 24 hold back Strict tempo (q = ca. 72)

9 28 dim. grad. dim. grad. hold back a bit 4 Slowing Slowly (q = 48) sempre p dim. fade p 40 ( )

10 4 II. On Chestnut Hill * q = ca. 66 slowing in tempo p (p) ad lib. p mf 6 p mp poco ad lib. 10 p ad lib. * From David Maslanka, A Litany for Courage and the Seasons

11 1 mp mf cresc. grad. mp p mp mp cresc. mf ad lib f ff Suddenly slower p sub accel. big f accel. ten f ad lib.

12 6 24 Suddenly slower cresc. move ahead 5 6 ff ff Suddenly slower (q = 66) ad lib. for sonority and clarity 27 steady 2 dim. grad. dim. grad.

13 slowing grad. 45 p fade away

14 8 q = ca. 96 III. Elegy: August 6, hold back a bit in tempo p

15 p p p ad lib. dim. grad. dim. grad. mp slowing in tempo q = ca. 96 fade R.H. sempre L.H. 9

16 ( ) ( ) mp ( ) mp ( )

17 ( ) () ( ) ( ) ( ) a bit 11

18 slowing a lot in tempo ( ) slowing a lot < e = 125 ( ) ( ) ( ) (ed. continues)

19 10 () 1 16 = e K (q = ca. 72) > ( ) ( ) 1 19

20 ( ) very grad. cresc. very grad. cresc. slowing a bit in tempo p suddenly a bit more energy p

21 mp mp dim. very grad. dim. very grad. ad lib. for clarity ( ) (L.H. always ) slowing Quite slow () (ed. continues) 15 Hold the moment. Go immediately to the next movement. 6 q = ca. 100 f p f p f p f p f p f p f sempre no cresc. * p f p f p f p f p f p ( ) IV. Eternal Garden * Melody from J.S. Bach, Herzliebster Jesu. In 71 Four-art Chorales. f p f p f p f p f

22 p p f p f p f p f p f ( ) quite freely p in tempo (q = ca. 100) mp dim. grad f ff f 2 sempre fade ( )

23 28 17 slowing a bit very grad. cresc. very grad. cresc. ( ) in tempo f dim. grad mf dim. grad ( ) mf dim fade 4 ( ) ( )

24 slowing a lot A bit slower (q = ca. 92) hes. in tempo hes. in tempo hes. in tempo slowing in tempo (q = ca. 92) f sub. f mf fading mf ad lib. for clarity

25 74 76 ( ) slowing a lot mf slowing 70 mf q = 58 (no faster) in tempo 9 loco let most of the cloud of sound dissipate before going on (ed. continues) 80 ( ) hes. in tempo 19 ( ) ad lib.

26 slowing 96 fade () (ed. continues) ()

27 101 mp ( ) 108 mf f mp mf f gradually moving forward ff ff 6 loco q = ca. 72 hold back

28 in tempo fff fff simile mf dim. p fade mf dim. p 15 q = ca slowing freely p sub tone () long ( ) ( ) long be very patient with fermatas ( )

29 tempo is quite free ( ) ( ) mp ( )

30 ff mf sub. mf f accel. 6 f ( ) take accel. time hold back q = ( ) suddenly more vigorous ( ) mf 6 6 ff 7 L.H. fade hold back R.H very steady no inflection ( ) 2 4 5

31 ( ) ( ) ( ) < x = = x > < x = ( )

32 = x > slowing a lot q = ca. 60 ( ) ( ) 228 ( ) ( 24 ) (in tempo) (Cl. tied; no. restruck) July, 2009