Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings. For Mezzo Soprano with String Ensemble.
Upon Silence
| Instrument | Mezzo-Sopran, Stryger Ensemble |
| Genre (Fx Pop, Rock, Barn m.m.) | Post-1900 |
| Typ (fx Lärobok, samling m.m.) | Vokalverk |
| Niveau | Intermediär |
| Sidor | 32 |
| Media | Noter |
| Publisher/Producent | Faber Music |
| Bidragsgivare | Benjamin, George (Composer) Yeats, William Butler (Lyricist) |
| Språk | Engelska |
| ISBN | 9780571515783 |