LENGUAS MUERTAS
Saül Gómez Soler
Percussion duo
Data sheet
- Composer
- Saül Gómez Soler
- Grade
- Grade 6
- Duration
- 11' 30''
- Format
- A4 score + A4 parts
- Pages
- 48
- Composed
- 2012
- Published
- 2016
Lenguas Muertas (Dead Languages) expresses the idea that the drumheads and membranes of the instruments speak and recover four “dead languages”: Hittite, Akkadian, Etruscan and Gothic. They are four languages transcribed in a showcase of complex rhythms, generating a discourse full of energy and occasionally obsession. The four lan-guages give rise to four contrasting sections.
Each fragment is a sonorous metaphor for each language’s morphology and culture.
All these sections gain coherence and unity thanks to two elements present throughout the work: the rhythmic grouping made up of the 5-6-7 (with all the possible variations) and a small rhythmic cell that mutates according to the language we are dealing with.
SET 1
A - Bombo
B – Low Tom
C – Snare Drum
D - Bongos
E - Sleigh Bells
F – Opera Gong
G – Tam-tam
SET 2
A – Bombo
B – Low Tom
C – High Tom
D – Conga
E – Tambourine
F – Pitched Gong
G – Opera Gong