Peter Knell

Composer

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Night Incantation

Large Ensemble: orchestra

  • Year

    1998

  • Duration

    9 m.

  • Instrumentation

    3*3*3*3*, 43*31, timp+3, strings

  • Sample Score

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Night Incantation was composed in 1998 while I was living in Charlottesville, VA. It is a work about stillness. It explores thick, static sonorities that move glacially, like slow breaths, only gradually building to climaxes and subsiding.