Transcription for flute and harpsichord

This work tries to solve, in a general and very meditative climate, a cultural duality between two music traditions that are nearly antinomic: the Western one and the Eastern one.

The harpsichord, with its harmonic texture and its completely chromatized material, represents the first one. Almost all its part is written in an uninterrupted way in a two intertwine voices counterpoint, sometimes a 3rd and a 4th voice have been added. The proposed notation (with undulated horizontal bars) asks the musician to find his own rhythmical phrasing.

On the contrary, the flute, very linear and modal, a bit inspired by the « Shakuhachi » flute of Zen Buddhist music, evokes the Eastern culture. Its main role is to give, in a musical Time much more stretched, another dimension to the musical phrase, this one being the privileged place of tensions and relaxing musically expressed by increasing and decreasing melismatic movements, anacrouses and very elongated endings, a developped accuentation...

Towards the three quarters of the work, and in a progressive way, these two musical worlds will join in a very intense culminating apex to form a unique musical material, like the ogival keystones of Gothic cathedrals.

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