Mark R. Bannister
Orchestral & Instrumental Composer
for Film, TV & Theatre

THE BURIAL AT THEBES
"Everything I've touched I have destroyed.
I've nobody to turn to, nowhere I can go.
My recklessness and pride I paid for in the end."

In a modern translation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' Antigone, The Burial at Thebes is a Greek tragedy about the conflict between family and state in a time of crisis.  Much of the music was written to create an atmosphere, more than it was to convey a melody, and this is especially true of Tiresias' theme and Dionysus.

Opening Music (MP3 - 1 min 10 secs - 0.79 Mb)
Tiresias (MP3 - 45 secs - 0.52 Mb)
Dionysus (MP3 - 1 min 47 secs - 1.22 Mb)

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