The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: ambedo

Annika Socolofsky

General Info

Year: 2018
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Sokolofsky
Cost: Score and Parts - $45.00   |   Score Only - $20.00

Instrumentation

Player I - IV: One Vibraphone (Shared), (Bowed and Banjo Picks), 5 octave Marimba

Program Notes

Program note: The concept for this piece comes from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a collection of words invented by John Koenig that “aims to fill a hole in the [English] language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for.” The title for this piece comes from the definition for “ambedo.”

ambedo n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details— raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.

- John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Bellow - Percussion Quartet, Fiddle, Electronics
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: ambedo - Percussion Quartet