Epitaphe sur ma pierre tombale
Publisher: DMP (Digital Music Print)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Antwerp, Belgium
Format: Sheet music
Number of pages: 15
Description: Epitaphe sur ma Pierre Tombale (1991) for 2 guitars, flute and voice.
The lyrics of this piece were written by Renée Vivien (*1877-†1909), née Pauline Mary Tarn. She regarded death as deliverance from life. Out of love for death she forgave life, which she experienced as being a crime. In her epitaphe which she wrote for herself she bids farewell to life. The composition is based on the Indian raga "Kanakangi". It expresses the following emotion: Consiousness moves from fear to sadness, subsequently to confidence and eventually to self-discovered peace.



Epitaphe sur ma pierre tombale  (1991)  voor zang, fluit en twee gitaren 

op tekst van Renée Vivien (1877-1909)

Voici la porte d'où je sors,
Oh mes roses et mes épines.
Qu'importe l'Autrefois,
Je dors en songeant aux choses divines.

Voici donc comme mon âme ravit
Car elle s'appaise et s'endort,
Ayant pour l'amour de la Mort
Pardonné ce crime: La Vie.



De compositie is gebaseerd op de volgende reeks (Kanakangi):

C, Db, Eb, E, G, Ab, A, C


Kanakangi:

Het bewustzijn beweegt van angst naar verdriet, vervolgens naar zelfvertrouwen 
en uiteindelijk naar zelf ontdekte vrede.