Signifying Nothing
Karen Siegel
About this work:
This piece began as an idea of sound emerging from nothing and then disintegrating back into the ether. Only after I had developed the technical ideas for how this idea could be musically realized did I find the right text, thanks to my husband Charles who suggested Macbeth's soliloquy contemplating the meaning of life and death. Each phrase ebbs in and out of being, only briefly existing as an understandable line of poetry with a cohesive melody and rhythm.
Year composed: 2009
Duration: 00:04:00
Ensemble type: Chorus, with or without Solo Voices:Chorus, Unaccompanied
Instrumentation: 1 S, 1 A, 1 T, 1 B
Instrumentation notes: This is an SATB choral piece with three part soprano divisi at the end (not visible in the partial score available here; please contact the composer for a full perusal score). Please excuse the appearance that this is for a solo quartet; that is due to the online form that requires a number next to each voice part. There is no requirement for the number of singers on each voice part, beyond covering the soprano divisi.