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Esa-Pekka Salonen. Homunculus. Parts. Sheet Music. String Quartet. STR QUARTET. Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen. Homunculus. Dele. Sheet Music. String Quartet. STR KWARTET. Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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Homunculus is a short. circa 12 minutes. work for string quartet, which the composer wrote during the Autumn months of 2007 for the Johannes Quartet. He wanted to compose a piece that would be very compact in form and duration, but still contain many different characters and textures. In other words, a little piece that behaves like a big piece. He has long been fascinated. and amused. by the arcane spermists’ theory, who held the belief that the sperm was in fact a "little man". homunculus. that was placed inside a woman for growth into a child. This seemed to them to neatly explain many of the mysteries of conception. It was later pointed out that if the sperm was a homunculus, identical in all but size to an adult, then the homunculus may have sperm of its own. This led to a reductio ad absurdum, with an endless chain of homunculi. This was not necessarily considered by spermists a fatal objection however, as it neatly explained how it was that "in Adam" all had sinned. the whole of humanity was already contained in his loins. He decided to call my piece Homunculus despite the obvious weaknesses of the spermists’ thinking, as he found the idea of a perfect little man strangely moving.

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Homunculus is 'n kort. ongeveer 12 minute. werk vir strykkwartet, wat die komponis in die herfs maande van 2007 vir die Johannes Quartet geskryf. Hy wou 'n stuk wat baie kompakte vorm en duur sou wees om te komponeer, maar baie verskillende karakters en teksture bevat steeds. Met ander woorde, 'n stukkie wat optree soos 'n groot stuk. Hy is al lank gefassineer. en vermaak. deur die arcane spermiste teorie, wat die geloof van mening dat die sperm was in werklikheid 'n "klein mannetjie". homunculus. wat in 'n vrou geplaas vir groei in 'n kind. Dit het vir hulle netjies baie van die geheime van die opvatting verduidelik. Dit is later uitgewys dat indien die saad was 'n homunculus, identies in alle maar die grootte van 'n volwasse, dan is die homunculus kan sperm van sy eie het. Dit het gelei tot 'n reduksie ad absurdum, met 'n eindelose ketting van homunculi. Dit is nie noodwendig deur spermiste beskou as 'n noodlottige beswaar egter as dit netjies verduidelik hoe dit was dat "in Adam" al het gesondig. die hele mensdom is reeds vervat in sy heupe. Hy het besluit om my stukkie homunculus te roep ten spyte van die ooglopende swakhede van die spermiste 'denke, as hy die idee van 'n perfekte klein man vreemd beweeg.