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James Gardner  

Knot

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1996
for bass clarinet and cello

• Programme Note

  This miniature was written in 1996 as a wedding present for its dedicatees: bass clarinettist Andrew Uren and cellist Katherine Hebley. One source of the title, reflected in the music, is a line from John Donne’s poem The Extasie (1633), which—on one level—depicts two lovers
  physically and spiritually entwined.

  As our blood labours to beget
  Spirits, as like soules as it can,
  Because such fingers need to knit
  That subtile knot, which makes us man:
  So must pure lovers soules descend
  T’affections, and to faculties,
  Which sense may reach and apprehend,
  Else a great Prince in prison lies.

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