Ghost Dances 莫,尼可拉斯 舞曲

尼古拉斯-莫的《鬼魂之舞》創作於 1988 年，採用了與勳伯格的《月光皮埃羅》相同的器樂合奏，並與後者的恐怖氣氛有異曲同工之妙。此外，該劇還加入了一個新元素--由現有演奏者演奏的民間樂器（從非洲拇指鋼琴到美國手杖），主要用於營造色彩和氛圍。標題中的 "鬼魂 "主要是指與記憶有關的、夢境扭曲的、多種不同形式的舞蹈形象，這些形象既有最複雜的，也有最普通的表現形式，既有天真的、懷舊的，也有恐怖的。這套舞曲大氣磅礴，極富暗示性，組織嚴密，配樂靈敏，在 27 分鐘的時間裡，聽起來始終如一，引人入勝，無與倫比"

作曲家: Maw, Nicholas
樂器: Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Cello
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Composed in 1988, Nicholas Maw’s Ghost Dances employs the same instrumental ensemble as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and shares something of its macabre atmosphere. There is also an added element – folk instruments (from the African thumb piano to the American strumstick) played by the existing players for largely colouristic and atmospheric purposes. The ‘ghosts’ of the title are largely those of memory-related and dream-distorted images of many different forms of the dance, images that range from its most sophisticated to its commonest manifestations, and from the naïve through the nostalgic to the horrific. An atmospheric, highly allusive, and tautly organized suite of dances coloured by such sensitive scoring that throughout its 27-minute span it sounds consistently and engagingly like nothing else. '… shows an ability to rework the romantic tradition in ways that are fresh and inventive … attractive, highly diverse music, which sometimes touches on the nightmarish intensity of Pierrot Lunaire, but more often takes a sly, sideways glance at many other 20th - century styles, the very tangle of influences through which Maw has steered his own, dogged course.' The Guardian (Andrew Clements), 25 July 1997