By:

• Ryan Youens

Duration:

05' 00"

Instrumentation:

21[CA]2[bcl]2; 4331; timp.; 2 perc.; hp; strings

Contents:

one movement

Samples

Score (223k)

Page 13 - 17

© Ryan Youens

Availability

• This work has 2 scores and a recording

Programme Note

Somnium is Latin for “dream”, and it is this idea that characterises the work. Somnium journeys through the first moments of sleep, the drift into an unpredictable and magical dream, and the return to the safety and oblivion of sleep.

Difficulty:

Advanced

Difficulty Note:

intermediate to advanced

Performance History

	08 Nov 2008	Rehearsed and recorded by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as part of the NZSO/Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards, conducted by Hamish McKeich at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington
		Hamish McKeich    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra