CINC CONTES PER A NENS
Ferran Sanchis Gandia
Woodwind quintet
Data sheet
- Composer
- Ferran Sanchis Gandia
- Grade
- Grade 3+
- Duration
- 7'
- Format
- A4 Score + A4 parts
- Pages
- 44
- Published
- 2013
In this piece for Wind quintet, the composer suggests an exercise in imagination with each of its movements, just as Debussy did in his Préludes for solo piano, with the difference that in this case the audience has mentally to compose their own tale from the title and the music; Debussy was careful to say the titles of his preludes only at the end of each piece, so that the interpreter could realize his impressions without being conditioned by the author’s initial ideas.
Each of the movements is written in a simple language, where the author employs modality, tonality, sometimes bitonality, even counterpoint textures in each tale, such as in the first one El jove dansaire (The Young Dancer), in the manner of a fugue. All of them, except for the fourth one, El camperol i el diable (The Peasant ant the Devil), are based on imaginary, unwritten tales. The last of them, La fera ferotge (The Wild Beast), is a small tribute to Alcoi’s singer songwriter Ovidi Montllor, based upon the lyrics of one of his best-known songs with the same title.
Flute
Oboe
Bb Clarinet
Horn in F
Bassoon