Invocación
Subtitle: Revisitando El Puerto
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Symphony
Publisher: Alarcon Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - Rental ($278.00) | Score Only (print) - $48.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II-III (II & III double Piccolo II & III)
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II (I double Soprano Sacophone)
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV (I doubles Piccolo Trumpet)
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium I-II
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Piano
Timpani
Percussion I-VI, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cajón Flamenco
- Conga, bass
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Palmas
- Ride Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was born with the intention of transforming an existing music work. In this case, it treats of the piano piece El Puerto, second number of the Suite Iberia by Isaac Albeniz, which the composer himself performed in his youth. From the perspective of the composer, the action of revisiting shows, on the one hand, the influence of his own experiences and memories and, on the other, challenges him to be conscious and to evaluate his own musical evolution and maturity in the timeline.
As a play on words, the title Invocación (Invocation) resembles and contrasts with Evocación at the same time (Evocación, evocation, is the title of the first piece of the Suite Iberia). While evoking means remembering in a suddenly way or motivated by something external, invoking is a request, thus denotes intention. That is the reason why Albéniz’s original music (supported by the lightness of a guajira) is transformed into a faster tempo and a more rhythmic character, which brings it closer to the personality of a ritual dance.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Hikarigaoka Girls High School (Okazaka, Japan) Winds (Kentaro Hino, conductor) - 19 December 2019 (2019 Midwest Clinic)
- Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra (David Fiuza, conductor) – 4 February 2018
- Banda Sinfónica CIM La Armónica de Buñol (Spain) (David Fiuza, conductor) – 17 July 2017 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Angelita (2012/2014)
- Cello Concerto (2021)
- Charlie, the Chameleon (2013), from Bestiarium
- Concertango (2004)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2018)
- De Tiempo y Quimera (2005)
- Duende (2010)
- El Torico de la Cuerda (2002/2006)
- Enric Cullell (2014)
- Invocación (2017)
- La Dama Centinela (2009)
- La Lira de Pozuelo (2010)
- Marco Polo Trilogy
- Marco Polo: El Libro de la India (2013)
- Marco Polo: The Cathay Years (2010)
- Marco Polo: La Ruta de la Seda (2006)
- Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad (2003)
- Pas de Quatre (2019)
- Pequeña Suite para Banda (2008)
- Preludio y Danza del Alba (2006)
- Second Symphony (2017)
- Spanish Dances (2021)
- Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2012)
- Three Sketches for Wind Ensemble (2014)
- Tim (2018)
- Tramonto (2007)
- The Unknown Friend (2021)
Resources
- Luis Serrano Alarcón website Accessed 20 December 2019
- Perusal score