Product Description
« AMITIÉ » is a composition of about six
minutes long for a women's choir (SSAA). It can also be performed by a male
choir (TTBB), in this case the singers must read in octabassa treble clef. This
piece sets to music a selection of poems based on friendship, taken from the
collection "Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d´Orphée" by Guillaume
Apollinaire. We will hear "The cat", "The peacock",
"The owl" and "The ox".
The bond of friendship is
symbolized here by an element of percussion: the friction of a metal chain,
played by the members of the choir from the beginning to the end of the piece.
This implies that the choir must use a stand or sing in pairs, one holding the
sheet music and the other playing the string.
This work explores different vocal techniques:
singing, sliding, timbre play, murmuring, rhythmic speaking, declaiming and
shouting. These different modes of vocal play are combined with different
compositional techniques such as polyrhythm, homorhythmia, rhythmic
irregularity, counterpoint, opposition and layering of sound planes.
"FRIENDSHIP" is the second part of a cycle
devoted to the work of Apollinaire.
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