The blue bird
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The blue bird
Classmark: Artists' Books 175
Creator(s): Belinfante, Sam
Additional creator(s): Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924) (Other); Coleridge, Mary E (1861-1907) (Other)
Publisher: [Turn Press]
Publication city: [London?]
Date(s): [2011?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 25 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/510637
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011413639705181
Description
Artist's book. Pages printed with music, not all of the pages bear music and some pages are only partial filled with music.
"For The Blue Bird the artist and musician Sam Belinfante made a gentle intervention into the famous English partsong 'The Blue Bird'. The song describes a blue bird as it flies across a placid lake, its reflection dancing on the water's surface. The harmonies of Charles Villiers Stanford's score paints a tranquil scene tenuously held by the beautiful but fragile soprano solo. For his arrangement Belinfante adds extra pages at significant points in the piece as well as instructions for their turning. This choreography has the effect of foregrounding the page-turns; the rippling sound of their movement becomes a subtle addition to the soundscape, further animating the bird from Mary E. Coleridge's text. This intervention also has the effect of expanding the piece, extending its held chords and pauses and augmenting the work's implicit timelessness."--Information provided by the artist.
The extra space in the title between "blue" and "bird" is intentional and reflects the printed title on the cover of the item.
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