La pell de brau, per a conjunt instrumental i recitador
Author/Composer
Field
Music Schools and Conservatoires Advanced Level
Scores Advanced
Collection
Orchestra Materials Nr. 23
Language
Spanish, Catalan, Music, English, French
Format
Rental Materials
Contents
Written for instrumental ensemble and narrator (there is also an orchestral version), “La pell de brau” is a selection of 15 poems out of the 45 of the homonymous work by Salvador Espriu.
Due to its dramatic intensity, I immediately conceived “La pell de brau” as a recited work, in which music would have to act as a sonorous frame in order to emphasize the text’s character. Therefore it was not about writing a “musical background” for a poem, but about alternating and making music have a conversation with the text, conceiving it as a music to be sung, and conceiving the text as an essential part of music, but leaving it at its total and original poetic freedom.
I have used a limited number of instruments to achieve this goal, trying not to surpass the limits of chamber music. And I added another –voluntary– thematic limitation: the whole work has been written on the basis of one single element formed by five notes, which is used according to all resources of inversion, augmentation, diminishment –horizontally and vertically.
Narcís Bonet
Instrumental and vocal formations
Choir of equal voicesTechnical Specifications
Measurements
21 x 29,7 cm, vertical
Binding
Staple
Number of Pages
267
Number of Pages
139
Number of parts
9
Number of Pages of Parts
128
ISMN
979-0-69210-783-5
Editor
DINSIC Publicacions Musicals