para o Bernardo Silva e os seus colegas do quarteto Trompas Lusas
Revisão (data) 2010
Andamentos / Partes
I-Intrada
II-Fanfara
III-Epilogue
Instrumentação Detalhada
Categoria Musical Música de câmara (de 2 a 8 instrumentos)
Instrumentação Sintética Quarteto de Trompas
Estreia
Data 2010/Oct/17
Intérpretes
Trompas Lusas Quartet
[J. Bernardo Silva, Bruno Rafael, Nuno Costa e Hugo Sousa]
Local Auditório de Espinho
Localidade Espinho
País Portugal
Notas Sobre a Obra
HORNPHONY was commissioned by Bernardo Silva to be premiered by his quartet Trompas Lusas at the «1st Trompas Lusas Meeting» at Espinho, in October/2010. Departing from a few drafts saved for years, I developed these and added a significant amount of new material (namely all the first movement Intrada). What I intend in this piece is, beside the purely musical material, to illustrate some of the horn most charismatic features, namely the bouchê, the cuivrêz, the mute or the fanfare/choral sound masses, as well as the bells up and the large musical phrases, to me so intrinsically linked to the horn timbre. The overall form is a kind of triptych (slow-fast-slow), in which the external movements (Intrada and Epilogue) are essentially meditative and long, while the central Fanfara is very fast and brief, albeit its richness of musical material. This last movement is in itself a king synthesis of the all piece, for its own ternary form ABA' (slow-fast-slow), plus a meditative coda and a surreal "call" of the first horn in half-valves at the end, summarizes the whole idea of the work. Finally the title, Hornphony, is an agglutination of the English words horn and symphony. The use of the first is obvious, while symphony is used here in its etymological sense, meaning "to play together". Hence Hornphony should be understood as "horns playing together".
Encomenda
Entidade Bernardo Silva
Circulação
Obra
Tipo
Data
Entidade/Evento
Local
Localidade
País
Intérpretes
Observações
Inv Row
Hornphony
Estreia
2010/Oct/17
Auditório de Espinho
Espinho
Portugal
Trompas Lusas Quartet
[J. Bernardo Silva, Bruno Rafael, Nuno Costa e Hugo Sousa]