![]() ![]() Eventually, Nyman expanded the piece into an eight-movement concert work lasting approximately 40 minutes, although the complete version has never been released on a commercial recording. It is the same recording used in the film, although for the film it was heavily edited and fades out at the end rather than reaching its conclusion. Water Dances forms the score of Peter Greenaway's 1984 film, Making a Splash, a short documentary about synchronized swimming. Nyman describes the piece in the liner notes mainly in terms of an exploration of the beauty of Sarah Leonard's upper register, in which he does not have her use words. The connection with the tango is somewhat imaginary." This is all Nyman had to say about the piece, the shortest, on the album.īearing the name of a key line in The Kiss, this piece is the sixth movement of the larger work, Memorial, assembled from music used in Peter Greenaway's Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London and Oxfordshire, 1985. "A musical ' alloy', bringing together two different but related musical materials. I'll know the bottom of it for I will touch it with my fingers before I sleep. I have made a vow to St Nicholas this day that my nose shall not be touched till I. Such a monstrous nose, said they, had it been a true one could not possibly have been suffered in civil society -And if false- to impose on society with such False signs and tokens was a still greater violation of its rights and must have had still less mercy shown it. 'Tis a live nose and if I am alive myself I will touch it There is more in it than any of a dozen of the largest noses put together in all Strasbourg The vocal line is mostly, but not entirely, in monotone, with the majority of musical ideas carried by the instrumental music, melodies built on a harmonic pinning of the dominant sevenths A, F, B, and, D.Īnd of the same mettle as you hear by its sneezingįor I will touch it with my finger before I sleep ![]() All of the statements are included in the lyrics sheet, but lines 3-8 of the final stanza are omitted on the recording. As recorded, it is performed as a solo by soprano Sarah Leonard. It collects together most of the statements made about the visitor by Strasbourg's residents, verbatim from the novel by Laurence Sterne. The song is based on "Slawkenbergius's Tale" from Volume IV, Chapter 1 of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which depicts a visitor to Strasbourg from the Promontory of Noses. "Nose-List Song" is the fourth section of Nyman's unfinished opera, Tristram Shandy. The theme is used to similar effect in their opera, Facing Goya, which is a four-act opera built on the remains of Vital Statistics, which flopped and was withdrawn. The final bars of The Kiss were later used as a prelude to Nyman's opera with Victoria Hardie, Vital Statistics, with which it shares a common theme. ![]() The theme line "Images were introduced because many people cannot retain what they hear, but remember if they see images" is intended by Nyman as ironic-the text originally referred to Biblical scenes versus texts from the Bible. The text is based on a collection of 15th century texts about art. Dagmar Krause replaced Pigalle for the album, and brought to it a darker sonority. The parts were written for Omar Ebrahim and Anne Pigalle, who performed them in the video. ![]() By design, the male voice is a trained singer, the female voice is a self-trained, pop, non-music reader, preferably whose native language is not English, possibly representing an Etruscan. The Kiss was commissioned as part of a Channel 4 series of artists videos, in which Nyman's " operatic duet" plays as Paul Richards creates a painting of a kiss with a Quantel Paintbox. The album includes music from Peter Greenaway's Making a Splash and 26 Bathrooms (originally part of the concert work, Memorial), an excerpt of Nyman's unfinished opera, Tristram Shandy, and a concert piece, "Tango Between the Lines". The title track is an " operatic duet" between Dagmar Krause and Omar Ebrahim, based on a painting of the same title by Paul Richards, which is depicted on the cover, and used in a video art project by Richards of the same name. The Kiss and Other Movements is the sixth album release by Michael Nyman, and the fifth recording (fourth full album) with the Michael Nyman Band. Music Works, Paddy Kingsland Music StudioĬontemporary classical music, art song, opera recital, film music ![]()
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