Bassoon,Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1363829 By Frank Leblois (bassoon) and Pavel Eret (violin). By David Warin Solomons. Contemporary,Medieval. 4 pages. David Warin Solomons #948227. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1363829). Instrumental duo inspired by the poem Rosa Divina by Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz (a Mexican nun and poet from the 17th century). performed by Pavel Eret and Franck LeBloisThe poem explores the mystery of the rose, which deceives us in its life and teaches us in its death. The music is written with a mediaeval feel. The mode is Dorian.Rosa divina que en gentil cultura eres, con tu fragrante sutileza.Magisterio purpureo en la belleza, enseñanza nevada a la hermosura.Amago de la humana arquitectura, ejemplo de la vana gentileza.En cuyo ser unio naturaleza la cuna alegre y triste sepultura,cuan altiva en tu pompa premusida soberbia.El riesgo de morir desdeñas.Y luego desmayada y encogida.De tu caduco ser das mustias señas.Con que con docta muerte y necia vida,viviendo engañas, muriendo enseñas.Divine rose, you who are so finely cultivated with yourfragrant sweetness and magisterial purple, teaching snowy white beauty.You are the image of human architecture,in whose being nature is united.You have a happy grave and you scorn death in your pride.Then struck down, you teach us in your frailty.Your life is vain, you deceive us in your life.Your death is learnèd, you teach us in your death.

Instrumental Duet Bassoon,Instrumental Duet,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533870 Composed by David Warin Solomons. Contemporary,Folk,World. Score and parts. 13 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3056169. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533870). The tonalities that the composers use here are Western equivalents of various modes in theJapanese music systems, especially the Okinawa scale The melodies are based on my Haikus by Matsuo Basho for voice and guitar(also published by Editions de la Fabrique Musique).In this version for violin and bassoon the qualities of the two instruments are explored, taking the rhythms of the original Haiku songs and developing them with more ornamentation, resulting in a dreamlike evocation of Japan as seen through Western eyes.