No.42 - In the Alps - an animated concert Richard Ayres

Titel (DE): No. 42 - (In the Alps - an animated concert)
Titel (EN): No. 42 - (In the Alps - an animated concert)
Titel (FR): No. 42 - (In the Alps - an animated concert)
Komponist / Composer: Ayres, Richard
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: Sopran und Ensemble / soprano and ensemble
Besetzungsdetails: 2pic(1.fl, bassfl).0.1.1(Ebcl).1.cbsn-2.0.Ctpt(2.pictpt).0.btbn.1-2perc(timp, b.d, small drum kit, 4 small hand-held cowbells, tri, metal wind chimes, wind machine, large wooden hammer on large wooden box, saw or wood-file on thin wooden box, vib, xyl, glsp, crots, tub bells, almgl)-3vn.db
Kompositionsjahr / Date of Composition: 2008
Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 45'
Verlag / Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 12.02.2020
Ausgabe / Publication: Studienpartitur - Study score -
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Seiten / Pages: 192
Verarbeitung: Broschur - Paperback/Softcover
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: - -
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Reihe / Series: Musik unserer Zeit
ISMN: M-2201-3501-9
ISMN-13: 979-0-2201-3501-9
ISMN-EAN: 9790220135019
UPC: 841886023383

No.42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera, early cinema, the theatrical practices of the nineteenth century, along with the folk and popular music of the Alpine region. A girl (the soprano), stranded on top of an un-climbable mountain peak as a young baby, is taught to sing by the mountain animals. Young Bobli lives in the village far below the un-climbable peak. He was born mute and communicates with the world by playing the trumpet. Bobli hears the soprano's song drifting down into the valley. The soprano listens to Bobli's trumpet tunes blown up to her by the wind. They are both enchanted. The three acts are separated by interludes describing how three animals experience time passing in relation to a musical tempo. Like any self respecting melodrama the text and music combine to depict or imply a wide ranging theatrical adventure, in this piece starting at the Creation (or the big bang), a lonely existence, scenes of rustic village life, some carpentry, many mountain goats, unrequited love, and ending in a quest destined to fail. In a live performance the text [provided with the performance material] is to be projected on a screen behind the musicians in the style of silent movie intertitles. Richard Ayres

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No.42 (In the Alps) could perhaps best be described as a melodrama. It combines many of the subjects that fascinate me: the relationship of text narrative and musical narrative, the history of opera, early cinema, the theatrical practices of the nineteenth century, along with the folk and popular music of the Alpine region. A girl (the soprano), stranded on top of an un-climbable mountain peak as a young baby, is taught to sing by the mountain animals. Young Bobli lives in the village far below the un-climbable peak. He was born mute and communicates with the world by playing the trumpet. Bobli hears the soprano's song drifting down into the valley. The soprano listens to Bobli's trumpet tunes blown up to her by the wind. They are both enchanted. The three acts are separated by interludes describing how three animals experience time passing in relation to a musical tempo. Like any self respecting melodrama the text and music combine to depict or imply a wide ranging theatrical adventure, in this piece starting at the Creation (or the big bang), a lonely existence, scenes of rustic village life, some carpentry, many mountain goats, unrequited love, and ending in a quest destined to fail. In a live performance the text [provided with the performance material] is to be projected on a screen behind the musicians in the style of silent movie intertitles. Richard Ayres

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