Piano
SKU:
AY.PN3058PM
Composed
by Gloria Rodriguez.
Keyboards - Piano. Sheet
music. Duration 4'.
Periferia Publishing
#PN3058PM. Published by
Periferia Publishing
(AY.PN3058PM).
ISBN
9790543573789.
Acco
rding to the
distinguished
musicologist Juan
Bautista Varela, the
Galician Treboada is a
musical term out of the
songbook, as its sense is
merely musical. From a
lexicographical point of
view it means
thunderstorm, storm,
squall, etc. It is almost
an onomatopoeic sense,
due to the great noise
that the bass drums,
fundamental elements of
the Treboada, make. The
Treboada is played always
on the eves of
celebrations or feasts
and it is played by three
or five bass drums, one
or two Galician bagpipes
and a drum.
The
dispersion area of the
Treboada is much reduced,
according to the poet and
essayist Eliseo Alonso
Rodriguez, it comprises
the parishes of Forcadela
and Estas, both of them
belong to the town of
Tomino. Xose Hernique
Rodriguez Portela, from
Tomino, says that they
also play it on the feast
of the Virgin of St. Mary
of Tomino eve (Virgen del
Alivio de Santa Maria de
Tomino). I owe him the
idea of this piece,
because Xose Henrique
described to me how the
bass drums sound in the
distance, early in the
morning, like great roars
along with blank bullets
that are shot every time
a particular house
donates money for the
feast and they gradually
approach the house until
it trembles. He sang the
melody I wrote and he
confessed he had heard it
not long ago in the
rehearsal of a popular
folk group where there
was only a percussionist
and a Galician bagpipe
player, as with the drums
it is difficult to
appreciate the bagpipe. I
also mix the Treboada
with an Alborada, because
in Galicia almost all the
churches have
loudspeakers that play
this melody at around
nine o'clock in the
morning, the same time
that the Treboada of
Tomino starts playing.
Gloria Rodriguez Gil.
