Trentadue: INFERNO 7.0

Description

• Composer: Josh Trentadue
• Format: Score & Set of Parts
• Instrumentation: Clarinet, Harp, Tenor Saxophone
• Work: INFERNO 7.0 (2017)
• Binding:
• Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches
• Pages: 10

Description

This trio, written for the chamber group The _____ Experiment, is designed to be a deceptive concert opener or closer for a unique instrumentation. The work takes its inspiration from the Seventh Circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno, or the Violent Circle. Divided into three rings (Against Neighbor; Against Self; and Against God, Art, and Nature), Dante must ward off a band of Minotaurs, Harpies, Centaurs, and other fantastical creatures in order to continue his religious crusade through all Nine Circles of Hell.

Inferno 7.0 is thus divided into three sections, each approximately a minute long featuring a different ring. The first ring descends into nonstop madness as murderers and thieves wallow in the blood of their guilt. A sudden jolt into the second ring is fulfilled as the Harpies feast upon the sinners entrapped in trees, who have given up on life altogether. This leaves nothing but desolation and the emptiness of the Burning Plain of Sand in the third ring, playing host to the blasphemous inhabitants all lost and alone in their suffering.