Opus 1083

Shoreline Rune (2014)

for String Orchestra and Harp

hp/strings

Duration: 5 min.

Dedication: for Judith Weir on her 60th birthday

Publisher: Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.

Performance materials available from the publisher.

Shoreline Rune (2014) for string orchestra and harp is dedicated to composer Judith Weir on her 60th birthday. A very slow melody unfolds gradually, is broken into segments with interjections, and then reassembled again. The overall pulse is extremely slow—as if one is standing on the shore watching an entire tide cycle compressed into five elongated minutes.