By:

• Michael Norris

Duration:

05' 00"

Samples

	Recording (946k)	0'00'' - 01'00''	© Michael Norris
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Availability

• This work has 2 scores and a recording

Programme Note

Ars Moriendi investigates the wide range of the bass clarinet through a four-part chorale texture with microtonal inflections and elaborations. From the tentative material at the beginning flowers more assertive proclamations in the dying moments of the piece.

Commissioned:

Commissioned by the Duo Stump-Linshalm (Austria)

Difficulty:

Advanced

Influences:

• Death

Performance History

	13 Jun 2008	Premiered by the Duo Stump-Linshalm
	03 Jul 2011	Performed by Andrew Uren (bass clarinet) and Gretchen La Roche (bass clarinet) as part of the CANZ Nelson Composers Workshop’s 30th anniversary opening concert at the Nelson School of Music in Nelson
		Andrew Uren    Gretchen La Roche