Music Text
St Augustine's Confessions, Vol 11, Chapter 11 (L)
Scoring
Women's choir-6.2afl.0.3.dbcl.0-0.6.0.0-2pft-2harp-2bass gtr-
elec.org(hammond)-perc:xyl/2sets of crotales(or metal plates,
or vib)/2vib/cimbalom/t.bells/2logdrums/5gongs/tam-t-
strings(vln/vla/db) Double basses may be moderately amplified
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
World Premiere
01/06/1981
Royal Conservatory, The Hague
Royal Conservatory students / Reinbert de Leeuw
Press Quotes
"...at the centre of De Tijd stands Augustine's fundamental question, 'What, then, is time". And so, transferred onto the musical plane, the work manipulates our perception of musical time by means of its structural organization and technical detail, and engages us by the poetry that these generate. ...throughout De Tijd is the sound of bells, imbuing its ritual progress with a sense of the numinous." Musical Times
