Seafarer Press | Elizabeth Alexander, composer


Impermanent Things
viola, piano

SEA-085-00 - $10.00/copy
7 minutes

Viola part may be downloaded (see below)

A meditation on beauty and impermanence, unfolding from a single note into an expressive rhapsody.  This 7-minute piece's rich chords and elegant formal structure create a poignant and poetic elegy, a paean to all things treasured and fleeting.

Impermanent Things - score

Impermanent Things - recording
(Performed by Evan Vicic, viola ~ Elizabeth Alexander, pianist)

Impermanent Things - viola part (pdf)

View and play the score Scorch was designed by the folks who built Sibelius notation software, as a simple way to allow Sibelius scores to become webpages.  Despite its slightly ominous name, Scorch is free, is not excessively large (approx. 1 MB), and does not do anything demonic like put you on a mailing list or affect other computer programs. - E.A.

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