When The Sheep Won't Come
A Sleepless Nocturne for Guitar
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

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A Sleepless Nocturne for Guitar. Composed by Michael Karmon. Solo part. With Standard notation. Composed 1998. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41084. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410840).

UPC: 680160015689.

See the biography of Michael Karmon on the back cover.
WHEN THE SHEEP WON'T COME:  A SLEEPLESS NOCTURNE FOR GUITAR was composed for Joseph Hagedorn, winner of the 1990 GFA solo competition, and premiered by him in November 1999.  My original idea was to write a serene and moody nocturne in several movements.  However, as I began researching and listening to new guitar pieces, I came across Toru Takemitsu's "All in Twilight," and it immediately made a profound impression.  At the time I found it beautiful, moving, and inspiring, but I also felt I didn't have anything to add to what Takemitsu already did, and that I needed to find a new concept for my piece.  So, I decided to view night as a potentially restless time, rather than a serene time, and portray states of mind one might go through during a sleepless night.  The names of the movements evoke, at least in my mind, the moods I am to depict, and the piece becomes progressively more convoluted as it goes on.  By the end, the music is a surreal and weary shadow of the opening.

  • I. 11:47 p.m.
  • II. 2:21 a.m.
  • III. 3:59 a.m.
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  • V. 5:46 a.m.