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SKU: A0.890704
Composed by John Pitts. African,Contemporary,World. Score and parts. 41 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3424677. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890704)."Joyful Balaphony" (2013) duet (prepared piano) 8 minutes
Joyful Balaphony was composed for French duo Émilie Carcy and Matthieu Millischer for a concert of duets/triet/quartets by John Pitts at Perpignan Conservatoire's "Festival Prospective 22ème siècle" 2015.
This duet was inspired by some traditional music from Burkina Faso in sub-saharan Africa - ensembles of balafons and djembes (hand-carved xylophones and drums).
The music is very percussive, obviously, with driving, pounding rhythms. Like a lot of other traditional musics, this african folk music is modal, and its timbres - the sounds - are both sweet and also unrefined.
There are some optional piano preparations which attempt to capture some of the exotic soundworld.
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