Elusive Sleep
Pamela J. Marshall
About this work:
I was asked to write a piece in the mood of a berceuse or lullaby, but what came to mind was not the rocking rhythms that cradle us in sleep, but the wandering mind that defeats our attempts to let go of the day and find sleep. Sometimes the events of the day are just too interesting and we can’t let go! I also find something obsessional in the rhythms and pacing of the mind’s wanderings among my available thoughts.
The music has rich harmonies fixated, a bit obsessionally, on major 6ths.
Version: cello and piano
Year composed: 2003
Duration: 00:05:30
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Keyboard plus One Instrument
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 Cello