El Remanso Del Pitido
Sheet Music

SATB Choir

SKU: BT.MUSNOV950451

Composed by Martin Dalby. Part. Novello & Co Ltd. #MUSNOV950451. Published by Novello & Co Ltd. (BT.MUSNOV950451).

El remanso del pitido has been commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for the London Sinfonietta Chorus who give the first performance this evening.

It is a work of nostalgia, a lament for the decline of steam engines - the stillness of the whistle. Based mainly on a poem by the Spanish writer, Gregorio Corral.

The setting is for twelve voices, eight of them singing through close microphones. The work is fourth in a series of pieces derived from 13th Century homophonic Spanish cantigas and canciones. The final series of works will form a sort of song-book, the composer's own accounts of early Spanish music. The idea of a song-book is contained in the title of the firstwork of the series, Cancionero para una mariposa.