Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad
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This work is also known by its English title, Memories of a City Man.
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 20:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: PIles Editorial
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - €265.00 | Score Only (print) - €51.00
Movements
1. Amanecer en la ciudad (Sunrise in the City) – 3:55
2. Máquinas (y hombres) (Machines (and Men)) – 2:35
3. Intermezzo (10:30) (10:30 Intemezzo) – 1:40
4. Máquinas (Machines) – 2:55
5. Sueños (Dreams) – 3:55
6. Vuelos Nocturnos (Nocturnal Flights) – 4:20
7. Amanecer en la ciudad (Sunrise in the City) – 1:55
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet IA-IB-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone I-II
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Euphonium I-II
Tuba
String Bass
Piano
Violincello
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad (Memories of a City Man) is a descriptive work which criticizes the current people, depersonalization, the work, the routine, the timetables, the speed and the machines dominating us.....it tells a person's life during a common day.
The seven movements composing this work follow in a continuous way. The first, Sunrise in the City (Amanecer en la Ciudad), tells the mysterious sunrise within a framework of sadness for a common working day. This movement presents the three notes group (B-G-F sharp).
Machines (and people) (Máquinas y hombres) is a movement of violent rhythm. Two opposed themes attempt to understand each other on a evolving and obsessive cell of triplets which regulates the frenzied rhythm of the current life: 'people's theme' is an expressive melody which uses the former three notes group as a starting point and 'machines' theme' is a repetitive pentatonic melody.
A new motive appears in the movement 10:30 Intermezzo. It is an eight-measure section of homophonic texture and a succession of minor chords without tonal context. After a new eruption of 'Machines' where the second movement elements are developed, a short moment appears in which, in the nightfall, our story character wishes for a better life that is rarely reachable ('Dreams'). The expressive people's melody appears combined with Intermezzo elements.
The music becomes agitated in Nocturnal Flights, (Vuelos Nocturnos), a movement that evokes the vertigo which occasionally produces the nocturnal life. It is a development section where the themes are combined and superimposed. After the climax of the 'Grandioso' the rhythm progressively dissolves until 'Sunrise in the city.' This ends a cycle.
The work presents a clear message: Current people life isn't a succession of days, but it is one lonely day endlessly repeated.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Charles River Wind Ensemble (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) (Matthew Marsit, conductor) - 12 June 2022
- Cleveland State University (Ohio) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Birch Browning, conductor) – 3 March 2016
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 25 March 2016
- Serrano Alarcón, L. (2005). Memorias de un Hombre de Ciudad = Memories of a City Man : For Symphonic Band [score]. Piles: Valencia.