Name: Fokkens, Robert: Four Colonisations
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Fokkens, Robert: Four Colonisations

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Arrangement: for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet and cello
Edition Information: Transposing score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-rf1fc1
Date Published: 9th Nov 2020

Four Colonisations has its origins in two songs for voice and piano I wrote in 2004 - Water is taught by thirst, written for Ros Mizen and Antonio Cascelli; and Elegy, written for Rebecca Ivey. For a concert on the Isle of Skye in February 2005 by Natalie Raybould, Sarah Watts and Rosie Banks, I reworked these and wrote two new songs. This little set I scored for soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet and cello.

The colonisation of the title refers simply to the fact that I have appropriated these texts for my own musical and aesthetic agenda, which has South African music - significantly removed from the aesthetic world of all three poets - firmly at its core. Xhosa bow music is the central influence, operating throughout these pieces - and in all of my more recent music - as a structural and technical foundation.

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