Beth Anderson
Knots
Year: 1981
Duration (in minutes): 4'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo voice(s) with piano
Instruments: mezzo soprano, piano
Description: The music has a child like quality with Baroque and Pop influences. The song deals with a relationship. Knots has words by R. D. Lang, the eminent psychotherapist. They are take from his book, "Knots" (1971). In his introduction he writes, "The patterns delineated here have not yet been classified by a Linnaeus of human bondage. They are all, perhaps, strangely, familiar." The score is available from the composer.