astrophilia
Brice Mayfield
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$45.00
Size: 8.5" x 11"
Binding: Spiral Bound
astrophilia
for piano solo
composer: brice mayfield
performance time: approx. 1 hr
movements:
i. i lie down, beneath it all
ii. the dome: over everything
iii. i will die, like the stars
iv. look around–we are so small
v. is anything real?
this grouping of musical movements holistically represents the experience of lying beneath the stars, the introspective thoughts that passively enter and leave the mind, and the feeling of human smallness juxtaposed against a universe that is infinitely bigger than the stargazer themself–from the dust of constellations we became human, and from the dust of humanity we shall return home, to never exist again–
the piece is mostly ...