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Additional Info
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ComposerGabriela Lena Frank
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PublisherG Schirmer Inc
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ArrangementVoice/Ensemble (VCE/ENS)
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FormatScore and Parts
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Genre20th Century
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TextJosé María Arguedas/Anonymous
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LanguageSpanish
Description
For soprano, mezzo-soprano, two percussionists, and two pianos. New Andean Songs employ texts that I've long been familiar with — Anonymous and indigenous Peruvian poems collected by the folklorist José María Arguedas (1911-1969). The texts are set to music inspired by the indigenous musical practices and sounds of the Andean mountain cultures of Perú. While the voices are called upon to mimic highland echoes quietly wafting, to hum under/above one another, or to evoke the pulsating repeated notes of zampoña panpipes, the instrumentalists evoke the tremolos and repeated notes of guitars and mandolin-like charangos, the asymmetrical rhythms of clattery drums, and the pleading of women's calls. — Gabriela Lena Frank