Aslant a Brook

Solo piano, c.2'30  Grade 5

Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, must tell Laertes, his close friend, of the untimely death by drowning of his beloved sister, Ophelia. Gertrude opens her sad tale gently by setting the fatal scene: “There is a willow grows aslant a brook…” describing how Ophelia fell and, like a mermaid, gradually sank into the flowing waters of the river.

This very sad lament in a dark key of b-flat-minor is written on three staves: the RH plays the top stave, while the LH plays the two lower staves. Composed 2014

From the Australian Women Composers’ Piano Anthology Vol. I (2015), available online.  https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/collections/print-music/products/australian-women-composers-piano-anthology-volume-i

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