Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna
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Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna (1974-1975) is a composition for large chamber ensemble in eight groups by the French composer Pierre Boulez.
The work was written after the death of Boulez's fellow composer Bruno Maderna. The work makes use of multiple groups of musicians (each with different instruments), widely separated across the performance space, as in many of Maderna's works (e.g. Quadrivium, 1969). There are eight groups, each one featuring different instruments, with every group but brass conducted by a percussionist keeping the individual tempo of the group; thus the groups have a rhythmic independence of each other, though there is a larger scale organization directed by a primary conductor.[1]
Boulez based the tonal structure of "Rituel" largely on a set of seven tones, corresponding to the number of the letters in the name "Maderna".[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Derrien, Jean-Pierre. notations, figures-doubles-prismes, rituel, included booklet. Naïve MO 782163, Lyons, 2002.
- ^ Blumröder, Cristoph von. Lecture "Stationen der Neuen Musik seit 1950", Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität zu Köln, 9 May 2006.
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