Clare Shore's Cool Spring Meditations, four miniatures for solo guitar
Date of completion: November, 1987; Approximate Duration: 10'
Program Notes Cool Spring Meditations was premiered on the AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Publisher E.C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc.
surroundings of the Holy Cross Monastery on the Shenandoah River near Berryville,Virginia. The
movement structure suggests the celebration of a portion of the Divine Office of Roman Catholic
liturgy. Matins, the first of the canonical hours, is usually held between midnight and dawn; Lauds
was originally celebrated at sunrise; Vespers, at sunset; and Compline just before retiring. No attempt
was made in this work to follow the traditional musical treatment of the Roman rite; rather, each
movement is evocative of the pastoral setting at various times of the day.
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