3 Poèmes
Guitar - Sheet Music

Mezzo-soprano and guitar - Grade 5

SKU: ET.V53

Composed by Jost Meier. Contemporary. Composed 2007. Duration 10'10. Editions BIM #V53. Published by Editions BIM (ET.V53).

ISBN 9790207012111. Text by Federicao Garcia Lorca.

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) describes shattering events in a narrative emanating from the depths of his imagination in a sensitive poetic language. The musical representations of these graphic scenes occur sparsely in subtle, restrained ways, placing emphasis on the writer’s poetical side. The guitar is an ideal instrument for that purpose, with the human voice remaining essentially lyrical. The expressive manifestations and the deep psychological underpinnings of the text are only occasionally underlined within the accompaniment.
In "Vuelta de paseo" (Return of a promenade) one can recognize the three part form of the "Lied". "Asesinato" (Murder) is a dialog which takes the form of words spoken with increasing irritation in response and opposition to a song describing an atrocious story with a sense of morbid delight. "La aurora" (dawn) is presented in two parts: the first - a kind of theme exposed by the guitar - is a sort of romantic spanish dawn distorted incrementally via three variations written to come back to a depressing dawn in New York. The second part expresses the despair of the local inhabitants until the music fades away slowly.
Jost Meier, Basle, Switzerland, February 25, 2007.