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Posted by Anne on April 25, 2008, 2:17 am, in reply to "http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Apr08/Nono_Prometeo_wwe2sacd20605.htm"
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Hello Martin ! Nono isn't setting the poem as a whole but only a fragment thereof. The few lines he uses are repeated and elaborated so much that the section lasts lasts over 8 minutes. I don't think Nono was particularly concerned about the exact details of the poem per se but was more interested in the concept of restlessness and the image of water thrown from cliff to cliff. Water shatters against the cliffs but reshapes itself in new forms when it hits the sea again. It's a pretty good symbol of how the music works. The section is also only 8 minutes in a work that runs over 2 hours so it's not easy to extrapolate from this fragment alone what Nono means by "the tragedy of listening". It's just such an amazing experience.
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