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Song Of Praise, Marianella Machado
Butterfly Triptych, Marianella Machado
Triumph Of Love, Marianella Machado
Triumph Of Love, Marianella Machado
Marianella P. Machado
For narrator, two solo violins, and string orchestra.
Performer:
The Starling Chamber Orchestra of Cincinnati
Audrey Gray and Alex Fager, soloists
Mark Perzel, narrator
Kurt Sassmannhaus, conductor
This is a musical composition by the Venezuelan composer Marianella Machado. The piece is based on the old Spanish-Arabic legend, The Legend of Abencerraje and the Beautiful Jarifa. This legend takes place during the last period of the Muslim domination in Spain.
Abindarráez, a noble Muslim from the Abencerraje family, is captured by Rodrigo de Narváez, a noble Spanish Christian Knight, and his troops on the border between the Kingdoms of Castilla’s and …
Remembranza, Marianella Machado
Remembranza, Marianella Machado
Marianella P. Machado
For String Orchestra
Performer:
Eastern Kentucky University String Orchestra
Mark Chambers, conductor.
Remembranza is a Spanish word that means remembrance. This piece was especially written for the Eastern Kentucky University’s String Orchestra as part of a series of pedagogical works that Marianella Machado has been composing in the last ten years for high school, college, and non-professional orchestras. These works feature major compositional techniques and procedures from 1900 to the present.
The principal compositional techniques employed in Remembranza are metric modulation, polytonality, and quotation. The tempo of this piece remains steady but every six or eight measures there is a …
Immutable For French Horn Solo, Marianella Machado
Immutable For French Horn Solo, Marianella Machado
Marianella P. Machado
No abstract provided.
Tonos Diamantinos No. 6 For Woodwind Quartet, Marianella Machado
Tonos Diamantinos No. 6 For Woodwind Quartet, Marianella Machado
Marianella P. Machado
No abstract provided.
Trilce, Poema Xxxii, Marianella Machado
Trilce, Poema Xxxii, Marianella Machado
Marianella P. Machado
Poem XXXII, Trilce, written by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, appeals to the sounds of words and onomatopoeic expressions (rather than to their actual meaning) to both move and shock the listener and make him/her aware of the particular situation the work presents. The extensive use of nonsense words and harsh sounds makes this work very difficult, if not impossible, to translate without altering the effect of the poet’s intention.
Two opposite dimensions are dealt with in the poem. The first, reality or the outer world, is symbolized by heat and warmth. It expresses chaos, oppression, injustice, and the absurd …