A Cradle Song - String Quartet

Credits

Music Credits: Don Rath Jr

Producer Credits: Don Rath Jr

Publisher Credits: StringTunes

Performance Credits: EWQLSO Gold Pro

Label Credits: StringTunes

Description

Short Song Description: This piece is a result of the inspiration from a poem "A Cradle Song" written by William Blake.

Long Song Description: Instrumentation - Solo Violin, solo Viola, solo Viola 2 and solo cello. The main challenges were to write a musical work featuring the viola in different registers, originally as a solo instrumental work, but, resulting in a string quartet.

Story Behind the Song: As part of an orchestration class, as offered through Alexander University, one of the assignments was to compose an original work from a reading by author William Blake of his poem titled "A Cradle Song". The assignment was to produce a work featuring th

Metadata

Song Length: 3:09

Primary Genre: Classical-General

Secondary Genre: -