I Presagi

From Wind Repertory Project
Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Scelsi


General Info

Year: 1958 / 1987
Duration: c. 10:20
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Editions Salabert
Cost: Parts - Rental   |   Score Only - $25.19


Movements

1. Satz I – 2:40
2. Satz II – 4:05
3. Satz III – 4:45


Instrumentation

Full Score
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
C Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Tuba I-II
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Wind Machine (or Electronics)


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

I Presagi (omens or portents) was written in 1958, one year before the famous Quattro Pezzi su una nota sola (Four Pieces on a single note) for chamber orchestra.

Without proceeding drastically to a reduction of the musical material, I Presagi gives us a glimpse of what would become Scelsi’s style: “entering the sound” by altering it in all manners through microtonal oscillations (here by means of a quarter of a tone), changing the timbre and dynamics, using vibrato, tremolo, trills, and extended techniques to make it tremble in all possible ways.

I Presagi was premiered almost thirty years after its creation, on May 28, 1987, during the Festival Voix Nouvelles, at the French Abbey of Royaumont, by the Nuovo Ensemble Italiano, under Aldo Brizzi.

- Program Note from WASBE


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State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project

  • New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Wind Ensemble (Charles Peltz, conductor) - 23 February 2012
  • Nuovo Ensemble Italiano (Aldo Brizzi, conductor) - 28 May 1987 *Premiere Performance*


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