Hielo Negro
- Marine Cadel
- 9 abr 2018
- 1 Min. de lectura
Actualizado: 13 sept
For ensemble and soprano saxophone soloist (Fl, B. Clar. Perc. Pno. S. Sax. Vl. Vla. Vlc)
Year: 2018
Duration: 13 min
Commissioned by: Antonio García Jorge
Premiere: Grupo Enigma. 09/04/2018 Auditorio de Zaragoza.
Hielo Negro is the second composition in a series of works inspired by and created from the poems of Miguel Hernández. This sonic elegy is based on the premise that verse is a language and language is music, and therefore, the combination of words and phonemes contains a high degree of musicality.
The foundational idea and pre-compositional materials for this piece come from the poem "Nanas de la cebolla" ("Lullabies of the Onion"), published in the collection Cancionero y Romancero de Ausencias ("Songbook and Ballad-book of Absences"), which Hernández wrote largely while he was a prisoner and a victim of Francoist repression.
The soundscape of Hielo Negro is generated through contrasting elements and instrumental situations that are based on the main metaphors of the poem. These are analogous to the poem’s structure, semantics, rhyme, meter, rhythms, literary devices, cadences, and phonemes. Ultimately, this piece presents an instrumental sound expression that originates from a vocal one and from all the sonorities that underlie the text itself.
Photo of the Premiere: Grupo Enigma. 09/04/2018 Auditorio de Zaragoza.
