{"product_id":"19848-adams-john-donne-john-harmonium-1-negative-love-autograph-musical-quotation-signed","title":"Adams, John. (b. 1947) [Donne, John. (1572–1631)] \"Harmonium - 1. Negative Love\" - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eAMQS from the American composer, who has penned five measures for voice from \"Negative Love,\" the first of three songs in his \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eHarmonium \u003c\/i\u003ecycle.  Adams has inscribed \"For Steve Juscik,\" adding the text \"This as yet my ease and comfort is\" and signing \"J Adams \/ October, 1988.\"  While the second and third movements of \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/i\u003e are settings of Emily Dickinson poems, \"Negative Love\" takes as its text a composition by John Donne.  In fine condition.  8.5 x 5.5 inches (21.6 x 14 cm.).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eHarmonium\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e began with a simple, totally formed mental image: that of a single tone emerging out of a vast, empty space and, by means of a gentle unfolding, evolving into a rich, pulsating fabric of sound.  This wordless 'preverbal' creation scene describes the opening of the piece, and it was fixed in my mind's eye long before I had even made the decision whether or not to use a text.  Some time passed before I was able to get beyond this initial image.  I had an intuition of what the work would feel like, but I could not locate the poetic voice to give it shape.  When I finally did settle on a text for the piece I was frankly rather surprised by the oddity of my choice.  At almost the same time I happened upon an obscure poem with the irresistible title 'Negative Love' by the seventeenth-century English poet John Donne and two poems by the nineteenth-century American Emily Dickinson which, together with the Donne poem, suggested a completed unity of form and meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"–John Adams\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093729628319,"sku":"19848","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Adams_John_Autograph_Musical_Quotation_Signed_19848.jpg?v=1722189955","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/19848-adams-john-donne-john-harmonium-1-negative-love-autograph-musical-quotation-signed","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}