Pizziguasa Galeónica
DADOS
- Compositor: Paul Desenne
- País: Venezuela
- Formatar/s:
Trio
- Instrumentos:
Flauta,
Harpa,
Violoncelo
- Duração aproximada: 4
- Descrição: "Pizziguasa Galeónica" and "Pizziquitiplás" were composed in 1989-90, exploring the structural possibilities of traditional Venezuelan rhythms in concert forms. Their minimalistic textures are not local spinoffs of the American school, but real iterations of Venezuelan genres transposed to the medium of Western chamber music, developed using the tools of formal poetics and harmonic drift that written music allows, as opposed to their basic ethnic versions. These two pieces use the cello only in pizzicato, creating a new composite sound as it blends in with the harp, so perhaps we can see them as a duo for the flutes (in C in the first piece, and the alto in G in the second), and a larger meta- instrument formed by the harp and the plucked cello. Harp and cello thus form a tight rhythmic and harmonic pair, an interwoven basket of sound upon which the flute develops lines and interlocking motifs, in two different Venezuelan time-signatures: the 5/8 "guasa" (or "banter") and the 3/4-6/8 "golpe de quitiplás" (an Afro-Venezuelan genre played on bamboo percussion). The first piece, in 5/8 is dreamy and smooth, with occasional geometric riffs punctuating thematic material, between stretches of textural landscapes and buildups. The second one, "Pizziquitiplás", originally for three cellos, is a structural transposition of the actual interactions between the bamboo idiophones of "quitiplás": interlocking rhythms between harp and cello creating an exciting temporal grid, developing and mutating as the piece progresses. The narrative arc of "Pizziquitiplás" is very poetic, in spite of all the instrumental intensity; a step by step rallentando, in the text itself, acts as a magnifying glass for these micro interactions. The brisk beginning gives way to a progressive slow motion, what started as a fiery dance ends in a nocturnal meditation in a warm tropical atmosphere, the striking idiophones turning into residual raindrops falling from banana leaves into the puddles after the storm, on the Caribbean coastal forest...
MAIS INFORMAÇÃO
- Partitura publicada por uma Editora: Sim
- Dados editoriais: Liliflute Music
- Localização: liliflute.com
- Audio:
https://soundcloud.com/liliflute/sets/paul-desenne-flute-works