Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14033079
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. 164 pages. Music
Sales #KP01073. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14033079).
ISBN
9788759858332.
Danish.
There were
wild oatsAnd the soil was
blackBut sparkledWhen the
sun was outThe air sharp
in the nostrilsHard to
defineSomewhere between
knife and coal andAcid
and that special light
and sweetWhiteness
thornbushes exhaleIt was
nothing specialBecause
everything was
special...Thus the
opening line of the poem
TERRAINS VAGUES by Klaus
Rifbjerg, the Danish
Poet. I chose to adopt
this title for my
orchestral work, because
of its closeness in
associations: an
indeterminable, often
polarized, state of
rhythmic and tonal
ambiguity.The expression
seems created by the
Franch author, Victor
Hugo:And here lies the
fascination: in the kinds
of terrains vagues, which
are simultaniously
bizarre and ugly, as if
created by two alien
species of nature. To
watch the suburb is like
observing and amphibium:
trees vanish, roofs
appear, grass vanish,
cobble stones appear,
ploughing fields vanish,
shops appear, beaten
tracks vanish - passions
appear; the murmur of
Nature Divine ends, the
noise of Mankind takes
over. (Victor Hugo)Still,
the atmosphere as well as
the material of TERRAINS
VAGUES have its origin,
in my SYMPHONY NO. 6
(1999), the last minute
of which, cut up rough,
appears as the start of
my new work. The music of
TERRAINS VAGUES
subdivides itself,
without breaks, into
three sections, or
shades:I: TERRAINS - II:
VAGUES (Waves) III:
TERRAINS VAGUES.Per
Norgard, March 2001.
