LIGÉA
15′ – 2009
For choir (32 singers) with different small instruments
(wooden sticks, jingles, rattlesnakes… and tabl (oriental bass drum).
Ligéa
In three movements, the work is built around an episode of the return of Ulysse. An initiatory path. The first movement portrays the ambiguous singing of Sirens and represents the passage, the man challenge in the face of the dangers of seduction, deceptive illusions. The triton (marine deity as well as quinta enhanced) and the major perfect chord occupy a central place. Games of glissandi, appearances and withdrawal of chords, disintegration, micro tonalities. Silence closes this chapter. The second movement is an inner questioning of our present, of the fear of the unknown, a kind of lamentation. The last movement opens a path in a form of sacrificial killing …
set
mixed choir : 4S / 4 ° / 4T / 4B or multiple of which 1 solo tenor
Accessories: 3 wooden plates with wooden sticks, 3 metals, 6 jingles, 8 guiros
1 bass drum or tabl (oriental drum)
THE FIRST MOVEMENT TEXT
Come, illustrious Odysseas, glory of the Achaeans,
Stop your ship, listen to our song.
Never one mortal on a dark ship
Did not go without hearing the sounds
as sweet as honey, springing from our lips.
We return then full of joy and wiser.
We know everything in the vast Troad
Trojans and Argives suffered by the will of the gods,
As we know everything that becomes on the fertile earth.
Homère, Odyssée, Chant XII
Text: extract from song XII of the Odyssey in which the strident cries of the sirens jeopardize the crossing of Ulysses
Singing languages: Ancient Greek, French and Latin
Premiere: November 13, 2009
Corum, Montpellier
by Les Cris de Paris direction Geoffroy Jourdain
Commissioned by France Festivals on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary.
© ŠamaŠ éditions musicales 2009
November 3, 2009
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