Diomedea

for khaen and harp
2017
12 minutes

Diomedes was a hero of the Trojan War. According to some Roman legends, when he died his companions were so bereft that they were turned into white birds and scattered out to the ocean. In 1758, Linnaeus assigned the genus Diomedea to some of the largest and most extraordinary birds on the planet, the albatrosses of the southern oceans (certainly not the Mediterranean birds of the Roman legends). They are the wise and capable denizens of the most forbidding oceanic habitat on the planet, living for many decades almost entirely on the wing.

Requires a khaen in D minor.

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