Temperamentos [Clarinet + Piano]
Clarinet Solo - Digital Sheet Music

Clarinet,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596623

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz,World. Score and part. 28 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6425039. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596623).

Juan María Solare

Temperamentos

four pieces for clarinet (or viola) and piano

1 - Melancólico (1:15)

2 - Colérico (1:25)

3 - Flemático (2:00)

4 - Sanguíneo (2:50)

Composed between December 18 and 23, 2010 in Bremen (and details in Worpswede), Germany. Total duration: ca. 7'30 ".

When I was studying Chamber Music (around 1985), the four pieces for clarinet and piano by Howard Ferguson passed through my hands, some very nice works of moderate difficulty down to low. Since then I have the idea of writing a response to this cycle of pieces, an answer that took about 25 years. As a trigger worked a suggestion from the pianist Juliana Ganuza (in December 2010). This cycle of pieces is dedicated to the Albanian clarinetist Ibrahim Gunbardhi. There is also a version for viola and piano (written on January 3, 2011).

Naming a work of "abstract" music is always a problem - although a problem from which, in general, I have been successful. In this case I solved it by reviewing various quaternary cycles. The cardinal points could not be, nor could they be the four seasons (I already have works with these names). But when I got to the four temperaments I discovered with joy that they adapted almost completely naturally to the character of each of the pieces. This discovery also made me happy for another reason, because Stockhausen said that in each work he tried to explore the emotional and energetic structure of the human being at least once. It is true that he was referring more to the model of the chakras, but the general principle is the same: to address musically to different layers of a person. And let's not forget that such four temperaments are almost never pure types, we speak then of combined temperaments. I imagine that the four tendencies are always latent in every human being and one or the other emerges according to external circumstances of all kinds or even personal decisions.

I refer to more reliable sources than I am for an explanation of these four temperaments, any encyclopedia is. I just want to mention that this pre-psychological model has existed since the time of Hippocrates and was for two millennia the most common theory in Europe about the functioning of the human body. From the psychological point of view of character description, it would not be entirely correct to affirm that this theory was "surpassed", perhaps rather that it was supplemented and corrected for being insufficient, but not for being considered fundamentally wrong.

After trying alternatives, I decided that the order of the four pieces would be the same as the one in which they were conceived and written, which also presents a particularity: they are getting longer and longer (like a spiral in perpetual expansion, if you want to continue with allusions to Stockhausen). Musically, in addition, I think I perceive in these four pieces an evolution from simple to complex.