Pour Saxophone Alto seul / for Solo Alto Saxophone-Sophie Lacaze’s Voyelles (based on a poem by Arthur Rimbaud) for Alto Saxophone. “Black A white E red I green U blue O” – in 1993 inspired by the verses of Arthur Rimbaud Sophie Lacaze chose the Flute’s timbre to explore the “latent births” of the poem’s vowels in Voyelles. In doing so she counters the bias that this supposedly translucent instrument is incapable of generating colour. Originally written for Flute and Voice Voyelles was later turned into a version for four Flutes and Reciter (2005) before being adapted ten years later for AltoSaxophone. Here again the instrumentalist can either say the text or work with a reciter. The composer retained the original’s skilful arrangement built on the model of theme and variations. Each vowel corresponds to a note and a colour depicted through a specific technique that is indicated in the introduction and forms the theme. Each colour-vowel couple which starts on the associated note is played as a variation with a technique that evokes the poem’s imagery: the ‘Flatterzunge’ recalls the buzzing of the “brilliant flies” the “shivering umbels” of the E are suggested by slow vibratos coupled with the sung voice while for the I the beat accelerates replicating the purple lips of laughter or anger. An alchemy of sound that begets miracles.
SKU: HL.48189805
UPC: 888680836191. 8.25x12 inches.
âNT 22 010 - Sophie Lacaze: La Lune dans l'Eau, for young storytelling flautist In 1993, composer Sophie Lacaze chose the translucent timbre of the flute to explore the 'mysterious origins' of vowels and their association with colours in Rimbaud's poem Voyelles (NT 14 451 Z). The composer's fascination with this age-old instrument has never ceased to grow, and was further impelled by her encounter with Pierre-Yves Artaud, to whom she dedicated Les quatre éléments and Het Lam Gods II. Sophie Lacaze has now produced a score for young storytelling flautist in La Lune dans L'eau, a study miniature initially written for saxophone students and published in the Opensax collection (AL 30 701). Written for Year 3 and up, the piece delicately interlaces music and poetry, with the musician pronouncing aloud a haiku by Ueda Chôshû (1852-1932): 'Though in a thousand shards / It is always there / The moon on water.' With a wide variety of techniques and performance indications, this volume is a veritable kaleidoscope of the flute's powers of expression, though this profusion never clouds the limpidity of a unique art: the art of simplicity.andrdquo.
SKU: HL.48189506
Lacaze Rimbaud Voyelles Sur Un Poeme D'arthur Rimbaud Flute Solo Book.
SKU: HL.48189804
UPC: 888680836139. 8.25x12 inches.
Pour saxophone alto.
Sophie Lacaze: Voyelles - sur un poème d'Arthur Rimbaud: Alto Saxophone: Score
