Actaeon (Clausula IV) (2011) for solo cello was written for Diana Golden. It is the fourth work in a
set of brief solo cello pieces that all explore the same musical material from different perspectives.
Clausula (noun, Latin) - an ornamented cadence especially in early Renaissance music.
The work is flexible and lyric&mdash,gradually expanding and contracting its basic musical material within
a passionate discourse.
The Greek myth of Actaeon has numerous variants. In the most well known version (as told by the
poet Kallimachos/&Kappa,&alpha,&lambda,&lambda,?&mu,&alpha,&chi,&omicron,&sigmaf,), the goddess Artemis was bathing in the forest when the hunter
Actaeon mistakenly came across her. Transfixed by her supernal beauty, he gaped, whereupon the
goddess transformed him into a stag, lest he speak to anyone of what he had seen. The now-cervine
Actaeon was then torn to pieces by his hunting dogs. This piece does not attempt to portray the
myth programmatically. Rather, it explores musically the transformed Actaeon´s internal emotional
state following his encounter with the goddess.