A MUSICAL SUITE
At the beginning, a sound: VIBRAZIONI
Chladni's frequency plates at play.
A volte le parole non bastano.
E allora servono i colori
E le forme
E le note
E le emozioni
Alessandro Baricco
Music arises: ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO
Intertwined volutes, and a reverted and truncated treble clef.
I am in need of music
I am in need of music that would flow
Over my fretful, feeling fingertips,
Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips,
With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.
Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low,
Of some song sung to rest the tired dead,
A song to fall like water on my head,
And over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow!
There is a magic made by melody:
A spell of rest, and quiet breath, and cool
Heart, that sinks through fading colors deep
To the subaqueous stillness of the sea,
And floats forever in a moon-green pool,
Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep.
Elizabeth Bishop
Piano passion: ANDANTE SOSTENUTO
Music vibrating like ribbons, rivers and brooklets, flooding the inside of a grand piano.
A Ninon
...
Je récolte en secret des fleurs mystérieuses :
Le soir, derrière vous, j’écoute au piano
Chanter sur le clavier vos mains harmonieuses,
Et, dans les tourbillons de nos valses joyeuses,
Je vous sens, dans mes bras, plier comme un roseau.
...
Alfred de Musset
Piano, piano, piano: ALLEGRO MOLTO LEGATO
It’s raining notes in rivers, their hands are running up and down.
Adagio
...
Le piano chantait sourd, doux, attendrissant,
Rempli du souvenir douloureux de l’absent
Et reprochant tout bas les anciennes extases.
Et moi, je devinais des fleurs dans de grands vases,
...
François Coppée
Schubert’s languid sighs: LARGO AMOROSO
With endless lines like a continuous long bow ride.
La música
La música es el acento
que el mundo arrobado lanza,
cuando a dar forma no alcanza
a su mejor pensamiento:
de la flor del sentimiento
es el aroma lozano;
es del bien más soberano
presentimiento suave,
y es todo lo que no cabe
dentro del lenguaje humano.
...
Aberlardo López de Ayala
A voice: ANDANTE CANTABILE
A dirge with a clear and sweet sound, and yet powerful, as the song of the nightingale.
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile
Wond’ring how your pains were eas’d
And disdaining to be pleas’d
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.
Music for a while
Shall all you cares beguile.
Henry Purcell, John Dryden
Twirls of passion: APPASSIONATO
Whirls mingling in a frenzied choreography
See the music, hear the dance.
George Balanchine
Describe your image
Now breathe: SILENZIONE
A call for quarter rests vanishing to full silence
Describe your image
Describe your image
Describe your image
SILENCIO
Así como del fondo de la música
que mientras vibra crece y se adelgaza
hasta que en otra música enmudece,
brota del fondo del silencio
otro silencio, aguda torre, espada,
y sube y crece y nos suspende,
y mientras sube caen
recuerdos, esperanzas,
las pequeñas mentiras y las grandes,
y queremos gritar y en la garganta
se desvanece el grito:
desembocamos al silencio
en donde los silencios enmudecen.
Octavio Paz