# Seneca's Zodiac (Mixed Choir): Choir Choral Octavo

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $7.50
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
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- **GTIN:** 9790697952942

## Summary

Seneca's Zodiac choral octavo for mixed choir, instruments played by choristers, and prepared grand piano, composed by Eriks Ešenvalds.

## Description

A powerful 11 minute choral work for mixed choir, instruments played by the choristers, and prepared grand piano Seneca's Zodiac, commissioned in 2011 by Philadelphia-based virtuosos The Crossing for their Seneca Sounds project includes an array of non-vocal sound-sources -- tuned glasses, Tibetan bowls, a rain stick, a bass drum, combs and paper and a prepared piano. Instruments and voices (who also whistle and audibly breathe) meld into one, creating a soundworld of compelling otherness. The result is at once primordial and modern, spiritual and scientific: the twelve constellations collapsing into the sea described by Seneca in his tragedy Thyestes are given a set of pitches based on the positions of their stars. These are traced in the score for the performers to see, but also traced by a prepared piano for listeners to hear. After a hair-raising opening telling of the coming end of the world, the evocations of each constellation are richly characterised as a mysterious ritual that subsides into stillness and exhalation for the fall of the Fish, "last of the stars of heaven".-- from notes by Gabriel Jackson © 2013

## Categories

- **Categories:** Shipped

## Enrichment

- **Type:** sheet music
- **Type Synonyms:** choral octavo, musical score
- **Tags:** printed, text-based
- **Colors:** black, white
- **Color Families:** Black, White
- **Category Path:** Media > Sheet Music
- **Compatible instrument:** Piano
- **Music genre:** Vocal music
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/9b2a64a810fa62ecdf8db63b242cdf34/f9780deab55cd82e98fca3186fbb3ac3.png)

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