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El aspirar del aire for countertenor, two tenors, and bass
RSN:
67336
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Composition Date:
2001
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:09:00
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MV 4000 L477as
Genre
Four Voices, A Capella
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2013-03-27
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Master Location
Toronto
Language
Spanish
First line of Text
All' me mostrar'as
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
1 score (10 p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 3 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
44126
Voices
Counter tenor
1
44126
Voices
Tenor
2
44126
Voices
Bass
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
El aspirar del aire (“The breathing of the air”) is a setting of two stanzas of a poem entitled Cantico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle) by the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross. The poem is allegorical, and likens the longing of the soul to be one with Christ to the longing of a bride to be with her betrothed. In the two stanzas I have chosen to set, the bride anticipates the coming reunion and the gifts of the bridegroom, which are expressed in images of nature. In his commentary on the poem, St. John, describes “the breathing of the air” as the breath of the Holy Spirit, the “song of the nightingale” as the voice of God, and the “grove and its living beauty” as the nurturing care of God. These gifts are given in “the serene night,” a symbol of the soul’s waiting in darkness for the light; the “flame that is consuming and painless” is the love of God which transforms the soul.On a certain level, this poem addresses fundamental questions surrounding the relationship between the individual and God. Metaphorically, these same questions may be addressed in any music preoccupied with the relationship between individual voices and the unity of the ensemble, or between individual gestures and underlying transformational processes. It is in these terms that I have tried to reflect my understanding of the poem in El aspirar del aire. -BL
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