Amor
Small Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

Small Ensemble Cello,Flute,High Voice,Piano - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.976441

Composed by Scott Anthony Shell. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 20 pages. Tikadori Music #2062393. Published by Tikadori Music (A0.976441).

For Soprano, Flute, Cello and Piano --Composed in 2014 --Poem by Delmira Augustini "Amor" is a poem by Delmira Agustini, considered to be the most important female Latin American poet of the early 20th century. She was born in Uruguay and was the daughter of Italian immigrants. She was murdered by her ex-husband at the age of 27. The poem is in three stanzas and the music follows the form. The instrumental refrain opens the piece, ends the piece, and is performed between stanzas. The instruments play overlapping patterns of different durations that hover around a major 2nd interval of F and E-flat, and simple chords created by these two pitches. The verses have a rhythmically interlocking pattern between the left hand piano part and the flute. Meanwhile the cello plays a strict serial part of 5 notes and 7 duration, which cause a change in harmony against the piano and flute. The vocal melody fills in the resulting random harmonies, sometimes anticipating the chord change that results from the cello line. The effect is a dreamy kind of randomness, that evokes that mystical period between awake and dreaming. The right hand part of the piano during the verses, the knocking of the wood of the piano, came to me as an alternative to adding more notes during this section, which I preferred keeping stark, to help bring out the different melodies and resulting harmonies. This is the first time I have composed in Spanish, my adopted language which I "love".