Psalmós 55 / Georgia Spiropoulos.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Spiropoulos, Georgia, 1974-

Language:

Undetermined

Genre:

Notated music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 pages) ; A4 - US Letter

Place of Publication:

Paris : BabelScores, 2005.

System Details:

PDF

Notes:

The Psalms are 3000 old... then... Book of Psalms, Sepher Tehillim, Zabur, one version for each monotheistic tradition. A composition of David? a collective and anonymous composition?... a savage poetry, archaic - attached to the origins - chaotic, without logic neither moral... (Claude Régy).The Psalm 55 has a striking contemporary resonance: the "town" dominated by the conflict, the violence, the war; the man excluded, isolated, constantly in flight; looking for the god's answer; prayer, call, scream, complaint; absence of God? Here, in french and in greek, the text is used as a vehicle of phonetic colors and as a "guide" for the form narratives. Melted in the sound, rarely perceived, the text is audible by moments deliberately brightened by a fragmented writing: a procedure of extraction of strophes and verses, of words, of syllables and of vowels isolated of the consonants. The vocal writing is based on three principal vocal modes, speaking-singing-screaming, regularly found in the psalms. Here the singing is generally represented by fluid and continuous textures (glissandi), the two others by pointillistic textures or discontinuous sections (rhythms or chords).

Publisher Number:

979-0-2325-0703-3

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.