THE TELL-TALE HEART
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THE TELL-TALE HEART

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I have long had a fascination with Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story The Tell-Tale Heart (1843). Vexed by an old man’s vulture-like eye, the story’s unstable narrator stalks and kills this innocent man. He is soon driven mad by the perceived sound of the dead man’s beating heart. This piece retells Poe’s story in three musical sections, using

I have long had a fascination with Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story The Tell-Tale Heart (1843). Vexed by an old man’s vulture-like eye, the story’s unstable narrator stalks and kills this innocent man. He is soon driven mad by the perceived sound of the dead man’s beating heart. This piece retells Poe’s story in three musical sections, using ensemble-wide "heartbeat" drums at the piece's climax. The Tell-Tale Heart is a great way to get younger players' "feet wet” playing more modern-sounding, somewhat chromatic music.

(Duration: 5'30")

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