Echoes No.4 “American” for indeterminate ensemble
Commissioned by the UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust (2016)
Alvaro Herran
Foreword Echoes No.4 “American” was composed in order to be considered as a commission by the UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust in 2016. This work is based in transcriptions/arrangements of folk songs such as found those found in Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico or Cancionero: Songs of Laughter & Faith in New Mexico by John Donald Robb. Between 1946 and 1979, John Donald Robb made field recordings of traditional songs in the Southwest part of United States and South America resulting in more than 3.000 recordings and transcriptions. Since I was born in Latin America (Colombia) and spend 27 years living there, some of these folk songs are very well known to me, therefore as soon as I saw the transcriptions and listened to the recordings of the UNM Robb Archives I recognised them and decided to select some of them in order to compose a new work based on these folk songs. The songs I selected as a source material for Echoes No.4 “American” were: • • • • • • •
Sobre las olas Guantanamera Jarabe tapatio La bamba Cielito lindo La cucaracha Las mañanitas
I included fragments of these songs in a minimal harmonic and rhythmic context trying to keep their simplicity as fundamental part of the development of folk songs in Latin America. UNM Robb Archives can be found in the following link:
http://www.robbtrust.org/the-trust/unm-robb-archives Alvaro Herran January 2016 Seoul, South Korea
Notes on performance Echoes No.4 “American� for indeterminate ensemble should be played for at least 5 players of melodic or harmonic instruments with equal temperament. There is no limit for the maximum amount of players that can play the work and I strongly suggest to perform it with as many players as possible. According to the instruments selected to performed the work it is possible and recomendable to transpose some notes octave(s) higher or lower to fit the best range of the instrument or to highlight a phrase. The horizontal line means that the notes between the facing repeat signs must be repeated constantly for the duration suggested by the line. Ossia
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