Works

Dedicated to Ana and to Manuel Dias da Fonseca

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Oboe
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Cello

The sentence “Le blanc souci de notre toile” corresponds to the last verse in the sonet Salut from Mallarmé. This sentence is here taken as a metaphore in the sense it can symbolise the dramatic moment when the creator (composer, poet) is in front of a white paper he must fill. In spite multiple relations between the poem and the music, there is never a programatic compromise. This work reflects some aspects of my musical concerns: a maximum of austerity, the absence of everything that can distract the listener from the tipical sound of the instrument, the intromission of silence as a structural element, as a generator of spaces: a "real" space, in the sense that there is a time allowded to the interaction between the room and the sounds, and a "virtual" space as this extreme rarefaction allows a place for the own listener's imagination. Le blanc souci de notre toile is dedicated to Ana, my wife, who's companionship has revealed more and more irreplaceable, to Manuel Dias da Fonseca, who has made strong efforts to the existence of this work, and to the performers, for their difficult mission: to turn single written pages in sounds that touch us. António de Sousa Dias October, 1998

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Le Blanc Souci de Notre Toile	Premiere	1998/Dec/15			Matosinhos	Portugal		Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Scores	António de Sousa Dias / Le blanc souci de notre toile  Le Blanc Souci de Notre Toile, Para a Ana		le blanc souci de notre toile António de Sousa Dias	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2014 1998