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The Diamond

for violin and piano
violin and piano
Product number: ED 30262
Edition: Score and part
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Sheet music
E-score PDF

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Description

In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled:

All composed things are like a dream,

a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

That is how to meditate on them;

that is how to observe them.

This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these four disparate visions of impermanence: four distinct moments of interplay between form and emptiness, four corners of a diamond. This series of images is itself a “composed thing,” gathering dissimilar elements into a unified system. It suggests that the things we make are similar to things that exist beyond intention. The Buddha’s utterance helps us hear so-called “composition” and “improvisation” – or the encompassing category, “music” – as part of an even larger aggregate: that which forms and recedes.

– Vijay Iyer

More Information

Title:
The Diamond
for violin and piano
Edition:
Score and part
Brand:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2018
Playing time:
N ′
Premiere:
March 31, 2018 · New York, NY (USA)
National Sawdust
Jennifer Koh, violin; Vijay Iyer, piano

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Arco Collaborative, Inc. with the generous support of Augusta Gross and Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting
Title:
The Diamond
for violin and piano
Edition:
Score and part
Brand:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2018
Playing time:
N ′
Premiere:
March 31, 2018 · New York, NY (USA)
National Sawdust
Jennifer Koh, violin; Vijay Iyer, piano

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Arco Collaborative, Inc. with the generous support of Augusta Gross and Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting
Title:
The Diamond
for violin and piano
Edition:
Score and part
Brand:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2018
Playing time:
N ′
Premiere:
March 31, 2018 · New York, NY (USA)
National Sawdust
Jennifer Koh, violin; Vijay Iyer, piano

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Arco Collaborative, Inc. with the generous support of Augusta Gross and Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 30262
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-291-6
ISBN13:
978-1-540-03496-0
Product number:
ED 30262
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-291-6
ISBN13:
978-1-540-03496-0
UPC:
888680790998
Weight:
0,18 kg
Pages:
44
Format:
22.5cm x 30.1cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
ED 30262 Q52318
ISMN13:
979-0-60001-291-6
ISBN13:
978-1-540-03496-0
Pages:
40
File format:
(PDF / 532.51 KB)

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