Lot n° 189
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Florence BASCHET (born 1955). Autograph musical... - Lot 189 - Ader
Florence BASCHET (born 1955). Autograph musical manuscript, Filastrocca, 2002; 29 sheets, 42.5 x 30 cm.
Work for tenor, bass, instrumental ensemble and electronic device.
Commissioned by the CIRM (Centre national de recherche musicale de Nice) for its Festival Manca, in Nice, where the premiere took place on November 8, 2002, in the church of Saint-François-de-Paule, by the ensemble L'Itinéraire conducted by Olivier Cuendet, with Fabrice Chomienne and Adrian Brand. The work was performed again in a concert recorded at Ircam on January 20, 2003.
The work has 108 bars and lasts 15 minutes. It is dedicated to François Paris. The poem, in Sardinian, is by Marcello Fois, in two parts: I Prologue " Sardos meres in custa terra de nemmos "... ; II Ritournelle " Sa morte arribat "... The instrumental ensemble includes flute, clarinet, trombone, horn, viola and cello, plus the electroacoustic device.
In a programme note, Florence Baschet explained : " The piece is centred on the vocal material of the Sardinian singers of the Confrérie de Castelsardo. This is an exceptional traditional music that can be defined as 'harmonically resonant singing'. The men of the village of Castelsardo have been practising this vocal technique for generations, which is based on an oral tradition and perpetuated through the sacred repertoire: they sing a capella, in a quartet formation of male voices, and through their vocal technique they are able to create the emergence of a fifth pitch heard as a fifth voice called "la quintina". A woman's voice that today would be described as "virtual". Hearing this secular music, I wanted to write Filastrocca and try to define this link between archaism and modernity, a close link that I wanted to seal as a way of alliance and sound alliances between this 15th century Sardinian voice and my contemporaneity. On the one hand, these Sardinian vocal techniques practiced for centuries reveal an intuitive but perfectly accurate knowledge of the voice's sound properties; on the other hand, for the last few decades, our advanced technology on the physical and formative properties of the voice (scientific research with computers, algorithms and software) which has allowed us to make enormous progress in the analysis, simulation and transformation of these properties. It seemed interesting to me to measure the proximity/distance between these two musical worlds and to assemble them in a single musical project: a piece for two male voices, instrumental ensemble and electroacoustic device. So I went to Castelsardo in Sardinia, where I met the singers of the Confraternità, whom I recorded [...] It is these sound "samples" that we hear in the piece, in their original and transformed form, the vocal material of the Castelsardo voices being omnipresent in Filastrocca. The Italian author Marcello Fois wrote the text of the piece at my request, a poem in the Sardinian language that gives the musical work its "ritornello" form, hence the title Filastrocca, "the one who spins the words".
The manuscript is carefully noted in black pencil on 15-line paper: it is dated at the end: "Paris, July 14, 2002 (corrected Dec. 8, 2002).
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