Name: Barker, Paul Alan: Seven Dirty Sonnets
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Barker, Paul Alan: Seven Dirty Sonnets

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Arrangement: for piano
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-pab1sds1
Pages: 24
Date Published: 9th Nov 2020

Dirty Tricks, from 1997, was an opera inspired to director Chris Newell by the acrimonious Virgin Atlantic vs British Airways dispute. Stephen Chance wrote a libretto in iambic pentameter to underline the mock-heroic tone. The music was predominantly a cappella for six male voices alongside a single soprano. The only instrument in the opera was an electric bass guitar, which played Interludes in the form of Sonnets. Seven Dirty Sonnets is a recomposition of them for piano.

Each sonnet is in the musical structure of the poetic form. For instance, each has fourteen musical phrases (either 4+4+4+2, or 8+6) which explore rhythms which explore iambic pentameter in different ways.

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