De eeuw der harmonie/en

From KCB Library Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search

radio play with orchestra and choir

[1]

History

  • Radio play based on The Era of Harmony by Roger Richard. Gaston Derycke adapted the text.[2]
  • On 14 January 1949, the work was entered in the catalogue of the NIR under the shelf number SPELEN 149.
  • The play was broadcast in the evening of 25 January 1949 by the N.I.R./the B.R.N.O. Frans Roggen was responsible for the direction.[3][4]
  • The story was announced in the press thus:
[...] A new disease has broken out, which soon plagues the whole of mankind. In a very short time, almost every person will fall victim to a speechlessness against which medical science is powerless.
In all countries, the spoken language must finally be replaced by a musical language that is infinitely more varied and full of expression; at least that is what people think. But after three centuries of musical language, a young man in love suddenly finds speech again. [...][3]

Music

  • instrumentation: choir and symphony orchestra[5]

Parts

  • 1. Plaat: Air de Figaro uit de Barbier van Sevilla van Rossini [Record: Air de Figaro from Rossini's Barber of Seville]
  • 2 and 2bis. (Air de Figaro - Rossini)
    • time signature: 6/8
  • 3 (and 7). Aankondigingswijsje van zendstation [Jingle of broadcast station]
    • time signature: 3/4
    • instrumentation: celesta
  • 4. phonoplaat: dansmuziek [phono record: dance music]
  • 5. Tempo di tango
    • time signature: ₵
  • 6. Moderato
    • time signature: 3/4 and 4/4
    • instrumentation: ondes martenot[6]
    • duration: ca 1'30"
  • 7. = 3
  • 8.
    • Gong-solo (iets vlugger dan de volgende Molto-Andante-beweging) [Gong solo (slightly faster than the following Molto Andante movement)]
    • Molto Andante
      • time signature: 3/4
  • 9.
    • bassoon 1&2, horn 1&2, trombone
      • time signature: 2/4
    • cello solo
      • tempo: Allegro
      • time signature: 3/8
  • 9bis.
    • Allegro con fuoco
      • time signature: 4/4
    • ± tempo di valse lento
      • time signature: 3/4
      • instrumentation: solo cello, bassoon 1&2
    • Maestoso
      • time signature: 2/4
      • instrumentation: trombone
    • Allegro moderato
      • time signature: 2/4
    • Moderato
      • time signature: 3/4
  • 10.
    • time signature: 3/4
    • instrumentation: solo clarinet, solo violin, strings (without double bass)
  • 11. Andante
    • time signature: 3/4
    • duration: ca 4'15"
De eeuw der harmonie-2.jpg

Sources

  • autograph: Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number H-00149. This score originates from the collection of the former NIR and bears a stamp of SABAM dated 29 April 1948.
  • handwritten parts: Royal Conservatory of Brussels (B-Bc), shelf number H-00149. This score originates from the collection of the former NIR. The part for horn 1&2 contains the date 15 January 1949 in pencil, possibly the date of recording.
  • recording: Archive of the VRT

Notes

  1. ↑ An article in De Nieuwe Gids of 7 February 1948 (Anonymous: Eigen muziek. Victor Legley, p.8) calls this work Legley's wordend opus 30 [becoming opus 30]. Opus 30, however, is The golden river. Possibly this work is the missing opus 31.
  2. ↑ www.sabam.be Anonymous: Radiorubriek in Het Nieuwsblad of 25 January 1949, p.2. Anonymous: Radio-programma in Het Laatste Nieuws of 25 January 1949, p.5. Both newspaper articles mention Georgette de Rijcke as translator. In De Nieuwe Gids of 7 February 1948 (Anonymous: Eigen muziek. Victor Legley, p.8), Marcel Coole is erroneously mentioned as the author of the text. The journalist probably mixed up a few things in his article about Legley's activities in February 1948, as the composer was then also working on Het gevecht met het hart on lyrics by Coole.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 M.: Een origineel luisterspel in het N.I.R. in Vooruit of 22 January 1949, p.2. Anonymous: De eeuw der harmonie in De Gentenaar of 22 January 1949, p.3. Anonymous: Radiorubriek in Het Nieuwsblad of 25 January 1949, p.2. Anonymous: Radio-programma in Het Laatste Nieuws of 25 January 1949, p.5.
  4. ↑ Anonymous: De eeuw der harmonie in Het Nieuwsblad and De Standaard of 23 January 1949, each p.2.
  5. ↑ 2 flutes (flute 2 also plays piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, percussion (kettle drum, bass drum, snare drum, gong, ondes martenot, timpani, cymbal, rattle), piano, celesta, guitar and strings (4-3-2-2-1).
  6. ↑ Originally solo violin.
Retrieved from "http://wiki.muziekcollecties.be/index.php?title=De_eeuw_der_harmonie/en&oldid=4474"