II. CREATION OF THE COSMOS When He decrees a thing, He but says to it, “Be,” and it is. -The Qur’an 2:117 In the beginning when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of the abyss; and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light; And God saw that the light was good; and He separated light from darkness. He called the light day, and the dark night. So God said: “Let there be a vault, to separate water from water.” and so it was; and God called this vault Heaven. -Genesis 1:1-8 When space turned around, the earth heated, When space turned over, the sky reversed, When the sun appeared standing in the shadows To cause light to make bright the moon, When the Pleiades are small eyes in the night, From the source in the earth was earth formed. From the source in the dark was darkness formed. From the source in the night was night formed. From the depths of darkness, darkness so deep; Darkness of day, darkness of night, of night alone. -The Kumulipo “White clouds shall float up from the great waters at the border of the world clustering about the mountain terraces. They shall be borne aloft and abroad by the breath of the surpassing soul-beings, by the breath of the children, they shall be hardened and broken by your cold, shedding downward, in rain-spray, the water of life into the hollow places of my lap.” “Not only you shall help our children!” And he spread his hand out with the palm spread downwards. Into all the wrinkles and crevices he set things looking like shining yellow corn-grains; in the dark of the early world-dawn they gleamed like sparks of fire. They moved as his hand moved over the terraces, shining up from below, moving in the depths of the water. “And as these grains gleam up from the water, so shall seed grains like them, but numberless, spring up from your bosom when touched by my waters to nourish our children.”
Maybe it's about the topic as well (in the sense of: "with such a work and treatment of the topic, the composer wants to say something about the topic")? Just a guess. Another being Haydn.
![Philip Glass: Etude No. 6 [Alon Goldstein]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/J9_fYPGRPuo/mqdefault.jpg)
Very nice
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II. CREATION OF THE COSMOS
When He decrees a thing,
He but says to it,
“Be,” and it is.
-The Qur’an 2:117
In the beginning
when God made heaven and earth,
the earth was without form and void,
with darkness over the face of the abyss;
and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of
the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light;
And God saw that the light was good;
and He separated light from darkness.
He called the light day, and the dark night.
So God said:
“Let there be a vault,
to separate water from water.”
and so it was;
and God called this vault Heaven.
-Genesis 1:1-8
When space turned around, the earth heated,
When space turned over, the sky reversed,
When the sun appeared standing in the shadows
To cause light to make bright the moon,
When the Pleiades are small eyes in the night,
From the source in the earth was earth formed.
From the source in the dark was darkness formed.
From the source in the night was night formed.
From the depths of darkness, darkness so deep;
Darkness of day, darkness of night,
of night alone.
-The Kumulipo
“White clouds shall float up
from the great waters at the border of the world
clustering about the mountain terraces.
They shall be borne aloft and abroad
by the breath of the surpassing soul-beings,
by the breath of the children,
they shall be hardened and broken by your cold,
shedding downward, in rain-spray, the water of life
into the hollow places of my lap.”
“Not only you shall help our children!”
And he spread his hand out with the palm
spread downwards.
Into all the wrinkles and crevices
he set things looking like shining yellow corn-grains;
in the dark of the early world-dawn they gleamed like
sparks of fire.
They moved as his hand moved over the terraces,
shining up from below,
moving in the depths of the water.
“And as these grains gleam up from the water,
so shall seed grains like them, but numberless,
spring up from your bosom
when touched by my waters
to nourish our children.”
I love Philip Glass but not this piece. Sounds like one of John Adams' lesser pieces.
Maybe it's about the topic as well (in the sense of: "with such a work and treatment of the topic, the composer wants to say something about the topic")? Just a guess. Another being Haydn.