Il pianto della Madonna, per a mezzo, cor de veus blanques i orquestra de corda

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Author/Composer
Text
Field
Music Schools and Conservatoires Intermediate Level
Scores Intermediate
Collection
Orchestra Materials Nr. 56
Language
Spanish, Catalan, Music, English
Format
Rental Materials
Contents
As if it were a stage performance, Todi presentsseveral characters: Mary, the messenger, the crowd and Christ. The centrepiece is not Christ but rather the sorrow of Mary who speaks with the other characters. These theatrical traits derive from the Perugian laudawhich was more oriented towards dissemination of the Gospel and humanisation of the religious theme rather than mysticism. Thus, Mary, more than a “Donna de Paradiso” is a desperate woman who is oftenunaware of the theological implications surrounding the suffering of her son.
The text comprises an introduction of three verses and thirty-three stanzas of four rhyming verses in the AAAX rhyming scheme and is divided into three parts:
1. The first part describes the Via Crucis and is focused on a mother who sees how her son is tortured through no fault of his own and who tries in vain to convince the crowd and Pilateof his innocence.
2. The second part is focused on the dialogue between the son, dying on the cross, and the mother.
3.The third part is “il corrotto” (deriving from “cor rotto” or “broken heart”), Mary's funeral lament, basedon an unyielding five-note bass repeated eighteen times.
Technical Specifications
Duration
25'45"
Measurements
21 x 29,7 cm, vertical
Binding
Staple
Number of Pages
160
Number of Pages
80
Number of parts
5
Number of Pages of Parts
80
ISMN
979-0-69238-987-3
Editor
DINSIC Publicacions Musicals