Much of I sleep? has a dream-like sense of mystery,
although it emerges from the shadows in the lengthy and
spirited final section. The entire work can be seen as
a musical journey from shadows to light, or from the
unconscious to the conscious.
?I sleep and my soul awakens,? a line in
Carl Jung?s Psychology and Alchemy (1944), appealed to
me as a title for this composition because it conveys a
sense of both poetry and mystery, and of moving through
a sleeping state to a deeper kin...(+)
Much of I sleep? has a dream-like sense of mystery,
although it emerges from the shadows in the lengthy and
spirited final section. The entire work can be seen as
a musical journey from shadows to light, or from the
unconscious to the conscious.
?I sleep and my soul awakens,? a line in
Carl Jung?s Psychology and Alchemy (1944), appealed to
me as a title for this composition because it conveys a
sense of both poetry and mystery, and of moving through
a sleeping state to a deeper kind of awakening or
awareness. I was also intrigued by the symbiotic
dichotomy between the Jungian concepts of shadow and
ego, or between unconscious and conscious thoughts and
behaviours that he considered inherent to of human
nature; an earlier title for this piece was ?Shadows
and Light.?
SHEET MUSIC