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Please notify me if you choose to perform this!
I need to give a big thanks to Dr. Greg Danner and the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble for the
help and guidance they gave to me while working on this piece! Also thank you to anyone I tortured with the many edits and editions
before this was finalized.
This
piece is inspired by the following stanza from Paradise Lost:
"Whence
and what art thou, execrable shape,
That
dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance
Thy
miscreated front athwart my way
To
yonder gates? Through them I mean to pass,
That
be assured, without leave asked of thee.
Retire;
or taste thy folly, and learn by proof,
Hell-born,
not to contend with spirits of Heaven."
Here
we see Lucifer, even after he has fallen so far, his wings bound by adamantine
chains, still view himself with pride for being filled with the light of
Heaven. He challenges Death, thinking himself superior to the foul (and more
powerful) being. This piece explores the arrogance and emotions that I
associate with the work as a whole, but particularly in Lucifers ego.
The MP3 given here is just the render off of staffpad. Enjoy!
PS:
Thanks to Charlie Hickerson for having me read Paradise Lost in my
senior English class.
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