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Tau (Dew)
music for flute and harp
(ca. 18 Min. 40 Sec.; comp. 2003)

dedicated to → Catherine Goodman and → Helen Radice

WORDS:


The words are to be spoken in the language of the country. The words of Nietzsche and Heine have to be translated. For the words "... and the traveller in the dark" has to be found an equivalent in other languages: A reference on an anonymous other, coming from a well-known song.

 1. Are you one who watches? - or lends a hand? - or one who looks away and walks off?

Friedrich Nietzsche: Götzen-Dämmerung

2. ... and a fool waits for an answer

Heinrich Heine: 2. Zyklus d. Nordsee

3. ... and the traveller in the dark

Unknown author, from the song: Twinkle, twinkle little star

4. The dew falls on the grass, when the night is at its most silent.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra, 2. Teil