Staccato News | Summer 2020 by ScherzoEditions

SUMMER 2020

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Changing World. Different Newsletter. The world is constantly changing nowadays, so as people, businesses, weather, technology, and so many other important parts of our lives. Therefore, Scherzo Editions decided to start a slightly different Newsletter this month: the most significant change is its periodicity, from monthly to quarterly henceforward; as a result of this change, there will be more sections of interest included; and we have rounded some lay-out corners, imposed by our constant update and demanding ideas. July is the last month of our free shipping campaign on LefreQue orders (check on our Youtube page for conditions). Place your order on our website and benefit of this amazing accessory for wind instruments, a life changer! Do not forget our special subscription discount on NKODA’s app. For enquires, please contact us via Facebook or E-mail.

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PUBLISHED WORKS | June Noturno Silêncio Repousado Ana Seara Following the request made by the Artistic Director of the Lisbon Music Academy. String orchestra, Filipa Poêjo, to whom I owe the commission of this work, I used sonorities, timbre beyond the conventional, so that the performers (students between 14 and 18 years old of music studies) get acquainted with other languages and open up their horizons as to the timbre possibilities of their instruments and the ensemble they integrate. The 1st movement reflects the landscape and the coastal ambience of an Ionian beach (Boeotia – Greece). It is a movement with timbre exploitation movement of the natural elements presented in the words of Camões, in the first quatrain and it announces the sad ambience running through the entire sonnet. The night, the silence, the apparent tranquility… The 2nd movement is the most melodic (with modal characteristics), corresponding to the second quatrain and to the first sonnet tercet. Here one lives the sorrow, the fisherman’s sadness for having lost his beloved. There is a prayer to the sea waves to bring, again, his Nymph who left so early. The 3rd movement is the shortest, without any break from the 2nd, a returning to the initial ambience. The coastal landscape. The sea does not answer back to him… Again, sound effects… The waves, the grove and the wind… It ends the piece, which, roughly speaking, is an ABA’, as the sonnet ends up presenting itself, full of references to the nature and a steady melancholic feeling.

Octet Marcus Tristan Composed in my last year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, for an ensemble called Camerata, created by a group of composers especially to perform music by contemporary composers. This Octet was premiered in the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford in Spring 1991 under the direction of Matthew Taylor. Unlike string quartets and string trios, which generally consist of standard groups of instruments i.e. 2 violins, a viola, and a violoncello for a string quartet, there is no standard grouping for an octet. The three greatest examples of octets are all for widely differing ensembles, the Mendelssohn is for a double string quartet, the Schubert is scored for string quintet (including double bass) with clarinet, bassoon and horn, and the Stravinsky is for a mixed woodwind and brass ensemble. A few months before starting to work seriously on this Octet, I had composed some arrangements of keyboard pieces by Thomas Tallis (also published by Scherzo Editions) for an ensemble consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, viola, violoncello and double bass. I was attracted to this ensemble because it had similar sonic palette to a small, chamber orchestra. This Octet is written for the same group of instruments. The Octet is divided into three short movements: I. Prelude, II. Aria With Fanfares and III. Rondeau and the general mood is one of a French “divertissement”.

VIDEO CORNER

Performance of the work Passaporte by José Valente

ARTS CORNER

Sagami shichirigahama 1858. Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858. (Library of the Congress,USA)

A woman and two children walking along beach at Shichirigahama, and two women watching from a pavillion or porch, with a view of Mount Fuji in the background.

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