Pas un bruit

No noise.

Only the gondoliers tell each other. The oars rustle? pain and churches, canals
an unknown night beckons us.
More a noise on the black trail,

The air is brewing a distant ave
true: I am a dead emperor that is taken to the tomb …
Rilke

This piece is placed under the sign of a poem by Rilke and the city of Venice – a mental cosa, fantasies and ghosts -. It is the sound experience of the gondola, its sliding, its movements in absolute silence. This mysterious atmosphere contrasts with the orchestral mass – the orchestra becomes a loud and inner sound. The musicians of the orchestra finish the piece by singing a hold note. they thus participate in an interior liturgy with an oriental energy, to accompany with a dis-articulated dance the cortege of a “dead emperor who is taken to the tomb”.. Zad Moultaka

set I
piccolo flute, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 english horn, 2 clarinets in Bb – 2 bassoons – 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in Bb, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone, 1 tuba, 2 harps, 3 percussions, 10 violins I, 8 violins II, 6 violas, 6 cellos, 4 double basses

percussions I
bass drum, vibraphone + 1 bow, Tam G
gongs: (the Do 4 state that of the middle-1 extra line below the treble clef) Do-5Re-4, Mi-4, La-4, Si-4, Re # -4, Fa-4, F # -4, Sol # -4, Do-3, Re-3, Sol-3, Sol # -3, The # -3, Si-3, Mi-2, Si-2, Sib-2
big chinese cymbal, snare drum

Percussion II
5 Timpani

Percussion III
Snare drum, suspended cymbal M, 1 bow, tam M, tubular bells (which go down to Sol-3)

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