By Božo Banović | For Three Female Voices and Violoncello | 7′

Title: Sonnet 60 of William Shakespeare
Composer: Božo Banović
Text by: William Shakespeare
Year Composed: 2014
Instrumentation: For Three Female Voices and Violoncello
Duration: 7′

Format: 1x Full Score
Page Size: Letter
Catalog Number: OM0601

Format: Performance Set (3x Full Score + 1 Part)
Page Size: Letter
Catalog Number: OM0601SP

Winner of the 2014 Oxingale Music Composition Competition!

From the composer:

As being a non native English speaker, I have never felt quite comfortable with the idea of setting Shakespeare’s verses to music, partly because of the fear of not reaching the contents, and partly because, most of the time, I have been reading translations. But then I realized that it had its own advantages – to read Shakespeare in translation meant to read his work in contemporary language and the meaning of the original text could not be exhausted by interpreting it in one of many possible ways – either translating it or setting it to music. Finally, my composition has emerged as a polyphonic texture moving through clearly divisible sections, like in a 16th or 17th century madrigal, because I believe that the basic laws of dramaturgy “stand to times.”

Commission/Dedication: Composed for the 2014 Oxingale Music Composition Competition.
Premiere: First performed February 20, 2015, in Herkimer, NY by Voice Vocal Trio and Matt Haimovitz.