Composer Line Tjørnhøj
Instrumentation Soprano and mezzo soli, double bass, electronics and video projection
Category Music Drama and Stage Music
Publication year 2009
Catalogue no. C.1002
Duration 45 minutes
Stabat Mater
(2009)
(2009)
Composer Line Tjørnhøj
Instrumentation Soprano and mezzo soli, double bass, electronics and video projection
Category Music Drama and Stage Music
Publication year 2009
Catalogue no. C.1002
Duration 45 minutes
The chamber opera Stabat Mater tells the story of the 16-year-old Iranian Atefah Sahaaleh, who was publicly hanged on 15 August 2004 for “acts against chastity”.
Tjørnhøj narrates this inhumane episode with soprano and mezzosoprano voices singing in English, Latin and a little Hebrew, accompanied by cello and manipulated electronics and visualized on a video projection.
“Vocally and musically the two female characters occupy a central position and when they dominate the stage the music acquires the feeling of a lovely but sad ballad. The singing is accompanied entirely simply by a double-bass player. However, the female double-bassist has more than an accompanying function: in some passages she plays, shouts and sings, but in a modernistic and exploratory fashion that provokes the listener while avoiding tonal centres of any kind” (Århus Stiftstidende November 2009, Ole Straarup).
The film cuts between various situations: silhouettes of birds hovering over landscapes, beautiful emergent patterns, a naked torso striking itself. The piece communicates a feeling of sorrow and distress, but nevertheless of hope.
All categories Solo 2-6 Instruments 7+ Instruments Choir Orchestra Music Drama and Stage Music Educational Music Other
HIMMEL
2023 • Line Tjørnhøj
7+ Instruments
10 minutes
Soprano & 1.1.1[b.cl].1/1.0.0.0/2perc/pno/2.2.3.2.1
ØR
2021 • Line Tjørnhøj
Orchestra
20 minutes
2 perc solo & 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/hrp/0.0.12.8.4
ANGEST
2021 • Line Tjørnhøj
Orchestra
10 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/archi
Grænselyst
2019 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
60 minutes
1.1.1.1/1.0.0.0/perc/1.1.1.1.0 + girl’s choir, boy’s choir & baritone and mezzo-soprano soli
TO HAVE TO
2018 • Line Tjørnhøj
2-6 Instruments
20 minutes
Bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Hånden på hjertet
2019 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
7:30 minutes
Girls choir
Wildes Tier
2018 • Line Tjørnhøj
2-6 Instruments
8:40 minutes
Fl, b.cl, voc, gtr, hpd, cel, vln, vlc
enTmenschT
2018 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
75 minutes
Mixed choir
AGONY
2017 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
Performer / chef, Soprano, Counter tenor, bass baritone, Perc 1+2, Vl, Vcl
TRØST
2015 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
11 minutes
Girls choir
IR
2018 • Line Tjørnhøj
Solo
4:33 minutes
Bass trombone solo
Shanghai
2017 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
60 minutes
Månedans, Lul Lul, Summarum
2016 • Line Tjørnhøj
Educational Music
1:30 minutes
Violin solo
Duck Dance
2016 • Line Tjørnhøj
Educational Music
1:30 minutes
Piano solo
TUSK
2016 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
23 minutes
Voc solo/mixed choir/2.2.3.3/4.3.3.1/perc/saw/b.org./20.0.7.6.4
Stemmer fra krigen
2014 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
25 minutes
16 voices, percussion & horn
Vox Reportage
2014 • Line Tjørnhøj
Choir
25 minutes
12 voices SATB
Oration
2013 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
Solo voice, Sop, 2 MSop, Ct, Bar and vlc
#glimpse
2013 • Line Tjørnhøj
Other
32 minutes
Solo S + trb, vlc, live electronics
Tomorrow's Child
2012 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
60 minutes
Female voice, vlc, tape and live electronics
Daughter
2007 • Line Tjørnhøj
Other
5:10 minutes
Sound stream (available on CD upon request)
Anorexia sacra
2006 • Line Tjørnhøj
Music Drama and Stage Music
60 minutes
5 female voices, 1 male voice + double-bass