RESSONS DEL XARQ

Piccolo

Flute 1-2

Oboe 1-2

Bassoon 1-2

Eb Clarinet

Bb Clarinet 1-2-3

Alt Clarinet

Bass Clarinet

Soprano Sax.

Alt Sax. 1-2

Tenor Sax.

Baritone Sax.

Horn in F 1-2-3-4

Flugelhorn 1-2

Bb Trumpet 1-2-3

Trombone 1-2-3 

Bb Euphonium

Tuba in C

Percusión I, II, III y IV (timpani) 

Percussion I

 Concert Bass Drum

Tam – tam (medium, with respect III percussion)/ shared with percussion II. May be replaced with tuned gong (low E)

Tuned crotales (high octave)

Suspended Cymbal

Violin’s bow for the crotales

Percussion II:

Tam – tam (medium, with respect III percussion)

Chamber Bass Drum (shared with percussion III)

2 Bongos (if posible Good quality leather heads)

2 Tom – toms 

Glockenspiel 

Rain tree

Darbuka

Super ball 

Violoncello or Contrabass bow

Percussion III

Chamber Bass Drum (shared with percussion II)

Tam – tam (big)

Marimba (4 1/3 octaves)

3 Tom – toms 

Snare Drum

Chimes

Super ball 

Violoncello or Contrabass bow

Percussion IV:

Tuned Crotales (high octave)

3 Timpani (29’’ – 26’’ – 23”)

Suspended Cymbal (+ one to be placed in the head of the timpani)

Cowbell. To be placed in the cymbal in the timpani

Violoncello or Contrabass bow (violin bow for the crotales)

The title of the piece, Reassons de Xarq (Xarq ecos) refers to the eastern region of Al-Andalus, Xarq-al-Andalus, also known as Xarquia

The piece is divided into three movements that are played without interruption: Algaida (sandbanks)- Mahual-Insiraf (exit).

Organization and choice of the different parameters are determined by associated fields (memories) of some known elements of Arabic music. For example: the maqam Nakriz, Malfouf rhythms, Aufar (accompanying to the hurn solo in Mahual) and Samai (at the end).

This piece does not represent any formal structure known on the Arabic culture, although it could be similar to the nuba’s (installation- prolongation-last stage-exit and end).

All these, together with other four elements, are materials used to elaborate the sonorous speech of this piece. It is an historic perspective that creates a temporal horizon, with the intention to rehabilitate the memories role.

Memory-tradition-aura-interrelations…