Colossos or Panic op. 55

This is one of several examples in Alexander Goehr’s work of the process of transference of a spatial into a temporal concept. Goehr writes of Goya’s painting: ’Uncertain light: dark above, bright below. The colossal figure of a man half turned away … below, tiny figures, animals and men, scurry about, rushing this way and that, panic-stricken.’

Scoring: 3(3.afl).2.ca.3(3.Ebcl).bcl.3-4.3.3.1-4perc(xyl, vib, xylomar, tub bells, cym, sus cym, tri, tam-t, Chinese gong, 4tom-t, tambour de basque, b.d, bng, 2tempbl)-hp.pno-str