Works

Work dedicated to the Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino

from the poem "Salmos, 27, 8" by Manuel António Pina

Instrumentation (detailed)

Voices

~ Voice (Soprano, mezzo, contrAlto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass)

Performer(s)

The compositional resources seek to give voice to the ambiguities indicated in the poem. In particular, the ambiguity of the relationship between the "I" and the "you". Through various syntactical twists, Manuel António Pina multiplies the operators of uncertainty, duplicity, ubiquity and fluidity, in dialogue with the contemporary experience of the crisis of identities. The "I" dialogues with a "you". But this "you" can be an expression of the "I" observed outside of itself. And the "I" can be a reflection of the gaze of this other. The composition quotes the verse from the Psalm that originally entitled the poem («Salmos, 27,8»). The quotation, worked as a literary trope, introduces into the compositional process the ambiguity of a fluid border between Manuel António Pina's poem ("I") and the fragment of biblical poetry ("you"). Within the framework of the composer's idiom, the musical resources seek to translate this uncertainty by means of harmonies filtered without direction and melodic conductions that draw on the duality proper to an archetype - the "bicinium". This choral work is part of the "Troparium" series, which brings together several of the composer's works that have in common this handling of literary tropes.

Alfredo Teixeira

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
a tua ausência de ti	Premiere	2023/Oct/29	II Festival Sons do Côa	Auditório Municipal do Sabugal	Sabugal	Portugal	Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino Maria de Fátima Nunes (conductor)	Notes