Quando Son Più Lontan from Madrigali: Six Fire Songs on Italian Renaissance Poems

文藝復興時期作曲家蒙特威爾第（Monteverdi）的偈頌為我自己的 Madrigali 提供了靈感。在這個時代的義大利愛情詩中，火焰、燃燒和火的象徵性意象經常出現，而我對採用這種火的動機的文本進行的迴圈創作，將那個時代的音樂風格特點（文字繪畫、調式、大膽的和聲轉換、複雜的對位、augenmusik等）融合到了現代作曲習慣中。樂曲由一個單一的原始音色（"火弦"）發出，它揭開了樂曲的序幕，並以各種形式和手法廣泛出現在所有六個樂章中，為詩歌提供了統一的動機。國家藝術基金會已將這組狂想曲指定為 "美國合唱傑作"

作曲家: Morten Lauridsen
樂器: Choral
出版社: Peermusic
原文簡介:
Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames, burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employing this fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting, modality, bold harmonic shifts, intricate counterpoint, augenmusik, etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from a single, primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations, providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle of madrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.

--Morten Lauridsen