Lost Traces

SKU: LM.28452

ISBN 9790230984522.

Sur un atoll perdu du Pacifique Sud, l'eau verte attirante du lagon - Fete du Dragon a Lao Cai, sur le fleuve Rouge, Nord-Vietnam - Tribus indiennes des grandes plaines d'Amerique du Nord - Al-Jumhuryah Al-Lubnaniya... sur les traces des anciens Pheniciens - Sur les hauts plateaux andins, la piste des Incas - Reflets de lune dans les yeux de Yu, fille de Shangai - Aux portes de l'Asie et de l'Inde, l'Hindu Kush - D'Asie Mineure en Grece Antique... la mer Egee et ses mythes - Equateur, foret amazonienne, Taruka, communaute Shuar (piano Tacet) - Entre Nil et mer Rouge, caravane vers Al-Qahira - Afrique de l'Est... en suivant l'equateur vers le mont Kenya - Des Alpes de Transylvanie a la mer Noire.

SKU: PR.16400248S

UPC: 680160038244.

This work is my second for a solo woodwind and a solo percussionist, following Firewing: The Flame and the Moth for oboe and percussion by nine years. The earlier piece followed a specific story line, and pitted the oboe against the percussionist as both adversary and lover. In Spirit Realms, my aim was not only to juxtapose the very different sounds of flute (plus alto flute and piccolo) against a large array of percussion, but also to attempt three different meditative spaces, each named for a different type of spiritual practice. The musical means of expression is very different for each of the three movements (as is the instrumentation), although they share a common scale-source: the looped pentatonic scale I have been developing over the last several years.   The first movement is called Prayer Tunnel, and is named for the Eskimo practice of solo meditation within a tunnel of ice blocks. This is said to be a means of overcoming demons within, and in my musical rendering it takes the form of an unaccompanied alto flute solo. The flute begins rather angrily, full of tension, but in the course of the solo passage manages to slowly unwind. The percussionist then plays the exact same music the alto flute had played....on seven tuned cymbals. Toward the end, the alto flute re-enters, its original meditation having fused with its mirror.   Kiva represents the circular, subterranean pit in which the Anasazi practiced their religion, a form of which still can be found in the Hopi tribes of the American southwest. These are not spaces for solo meditation, but rather a group meeting place in which only the sanctified are permitted. After an introductory invocation (dove call), the music begins. At first, it is flowing, in a repetitive double-five meter. It then traces several sections, with metric shifts forcing the pulse to race faster and faster, until it halves itself in the coda and returns to the exact pulse of the beginning. The flutist here uses the C flute, and the percussionist plays on both pitched (marimba) and unpitched instruments (various drums and struck sources).   Zendo is the meditation room used by Zen Buddhists. My music begins with another invocation (wind chimes, temple cup gongs, and temple blocks), then moves on to a slow subject stated by the flute. The subject is taken up by the vibraphone, and after several modulations and tempo changes, the flutist takes up the piccolo. The music continues higher and higher, and faster and faster (Zen meditation is NOT all about becoming lost!) until it breaks free at the very end. The percussionist is put through his paces in this movement, having to reach a staggering number of instruments in a short time.   Spirit Realms was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, the Armstrong Duo. -- Dan Welcher.

SKU: BT.DHP-1186065-140

English-German-French- Dutch.

The main theme of this composition was created on a clear, starry night on the 10th of August. While writing it, the Italian composer Angela Ciampani was inspired by her son Lorenzo and the sight of stars over the green hills of Umbria. Initially, it was a short solo for trumpet and piano: subsequently, Jacob de Haan extended and rewrote the composition for euphonium solo and band. This arrangement was created for the celebration of the 170th and 20th anniversaries, respectively, of the concert bands of Monteleone d'Orvieto and Citt della Pieve.

Het hoofdthema van deze compositie werd gecreëerd in de nacht van 10 augustus, een van die heldere nachten met sterren die zachtjes vallen om de dromen niet te wekken. De Italiaanse componiste Angela Ciampani werd bij het schrijven ervan ge nspireerd door haar zoon Lorenzo en de sporen van vallende sterren verspreid over de groene heuvels van Umbrië. In eerste instantie betrof het een korte solo voor trompet en piano, vervolgens heeft Jacob de Haan de compositie uitgebouwd en herschreven voor euphoniumsolo en blaasorkest. Aanleiding hiervoor was de viering van de 170e en 20e verjaardag van de harmonieorkesten van respectievelijk Monteleone d'Orvieto en Citt della Pieve.

Das Hauptthema dieser Komposition entstand in der Nacht des 10. August einer dieser sternenklaren Nächte, in der die Sternschnuppen sanft vom Himmel fallen, um die Träume der Schlafenden nicht zu stören. Die italienische Komponistin Angela Ciampani wurde bei der Komposition durch ihren Sohn Lorenzo und die Spuren der Sternschnuppen über den grünen Hügeln Umbriens inspiriert. Was ursprünglich als kurzes Solostück für Trompete und Klavier konzipiert war, wurde später von Jacob de Haan erweitert und für Solo-Euphonium und Blasorchester neu geschrieben. Der Anlass hierfür waren die Feiern zum 170. und 20. Jubiläum der Blasorchester von Monteleone d'Orvieto bzw. Citt dellaPieve.

Le thème principal de cette composition est né la nuit du 10 ao t, une de ces nuits claires où les étoiles tombent doucement pour ne pas perturber les rêves. La compositrice italienne Angela Ciampani a été inspirée par son fils Lorenzo et les traces des étoiles filantes dispersées par-dessus les collines vertes d’Ombrie. A l’origine, l’œuvre consistait en un court solo pour trompette et piano : par la suite, Jacob de Haan a étendu et réécrit la composition pour euphonium solo et harmonie l’occasion de la célébration des 170e et 20e anniversaires des orchestres de Monteleone d’Orvieto et de Citt della Pieve respectivement.