USHER Scene 4 – Roderick’s Guitar

Type
Piece
Composer
Morgan Woolsey
Composer Nationality
American
Text
Edgar Allen Poe
Year Composed
2018
Pages
5
Minutes
3:21
Language
French; Wordless
Voicing
8 part mixed chorus
Solos
3 narrators
Video
Yes
Sacred or Secular
Secular
Mood
Dramatic, with dynamic contrasts; Tense, with some edge
Description

This is one movement of a larger work, a score for The Fall of the House of Usher (1929)

Audio Credit
Umberto Belfiore, video and recording
Group
C3LA
Performances
C3LA: Oct 2018 (The Fall of the House of Usher)