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Form'd of Joy and Mirth / Loretta K Notareschi [notated music]
- Title
- Form'd of Joy and Mirth [notated music]
- Composer
- Notareschi, Loretta K, 1977-
- Place of Publication/Creation
- Denver, CO
- Published/Created
- 2016
- Type of Material
- notated music
- Genre
- notated music
- Publisher
- Disegni Musi
- Language
- Unknown
- Media
- unmediated
- Physical Description
- 1 score (9 pages)
- Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- Pianist Janeen Jones commissioned Form'd of Joy and Mirth to be inspired by this gnomic poem of William Blake: -- The Angel that presided o’er my birth -- Said ‘Little creature, form’d of joy and mirth, -- Go, love without the help of anything on earth.' -- Finding Blake's meaning to be both numinous and inscrutable, I asked Janeen to write her thoughts about the poem. -- In response, she wrote the following, which serves beautifully as a program note for this piece: -- Life itself is love/joy--they are joined as closely as the proton and electron of a hydrogen atom. They are -- ubiquitous, beyond human. They were here before us and they will still be here after we're gone. Any child -- born into this universe carries joy within him, the unutterable joy of being, leading him naturally to love, to -- connection. -- Love/joy is like the cosmic background radiation--always everywhere. Blake's angel reminded him to just put -- his hand into the eternal stream and pull up as much of it as he could handle. -- This does not have to be taught! It is part of being! -- There is no original sin; there is only original joy, which always was and always will be. The person who hears -- Blake's angel will find love everywhere, just as the radio astronomers found invisible light everywhere. -- I dedicate this piece to Janeen, with gratitude, and hope she and all subsequent performers will find the "unutterable joy -- of being" in these notes. -- -LKN.
- Notes
- Piano .
- ISMN with hyphens: 979-0-800063-02-2
- Description based on ISMN data provided by the publisher.
- Music notation
- Staff notation.
- International Standard Music Number (ISMN)
- 9790800063022
Last Updated: 03-26-2022