Ghost Dances 莫,尼可拉斯 舞曲

尼古拉斯-莫的《鬼魂之舞》创作于 1988 年，采用了与勋伯格的《月光皮埃罗》相同的器乐合奏，并与后者的恐怖气氛有异曲同工之妙。此外，该剧还加入了一个新元素--由现有演奏者演奏的民间乐器（从非洲拇指钢琴到美国手杖），主要用于营造色彩和氛围。标题中的 "鬼魂 "主要是指与记忆有关的、梦境扭曲的、多种不同形式的舞蹈形象，这些形象既有最复杂的，也有最普通的表现形式，既有天真的、怀旧的，也有恐怖的。这套舞曲大气磅礴，极富暗示性，组织严密，配乐灵敏，在 27 分钟的时间里，听起来始终如一，引人入胜，无与伦比"

作曲家: Maw, Nicholas
乐器: Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Cello
出版社: Faber Music
原文简介:
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