| 作曲者 | Gavin Bryars (b. 1943) |
| タイトル | The Black River |
| サブタイトル | text from 20, 000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne |
| 出版社 | Schott（ショット） |
| 楽器編成 | soprano and organ |
| 品番 | 9790220117558 |
| 難易度 | 上中級 |
| 言語 | 英語 |
| 形状 | 20 ページ・110 g |
| 演奏時間 | 15分 |
| 作曲年 | 1991年 |
| 出版年 | 1996年 |
| 出版番号 | ED 12462 |
| ISMN | 9790220117558 |
This piece is one of a series of works that take texts or imagery from the work of Jules Verne. Here the text is taken from 20, 000 Leagues under the Sea, a section in which Professor Aronnax describes the scene outside the Nautilus where countless varieties of sea-creatures escort the submarine along the current of the mysterious underwater Black River.Coincidentally the first work that I wrote using Verne as a source, the cantata Effarene (1984), sets an earlier portion of the same chapter for its closing movement and I find the objectivity and invention of Verne's language a constant stimulus. As Raymond Queneau said of Verne: What a style! Nothing but nouns.The piece was written for a concert given by the organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent at Leicester Cathedral in January 1991 and later recorded by him with soprano Sarah Leonard for ECM New Series in 1993.Gavin Bryars.