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Tuesday 25 May, at 20.30 pm in the Church Museum San Juan de Dios, the Schola Gregoriana de Murcia debut "Igne Spiritus," a program of works by Hildegard of Bingen and parts of the island's religious polyphony Corsica, composed specially for the Festival Murcia Tres Culturas, under the direction of Jose Solano.
The compositions of the mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and the religious polyphony of the island of Corsica (XVII-XVIII centuries) are two forms of spirituality in music from the West, distant in time, different in concept, born in diverse cultural settings, but share one common feature: they possess extraordinary strength, a force that leaves a deep mark on the listener.
The Schola has tried to reflect this feature in the show's title, "Igne Spiritus," a call to the incandescent spirit of this music.
In the world where the Gregorian chant reached its maximum expansion, late eleventh century, Hildegard of Bingen was born in a small town in the Rhine today.
Benedictine abbess, medical, composer and writer, Hildegard is one of the most important of the mystique of the Middle Ages.
From the very young, Hildegard had visions, which later confirmed the Church itself as inspired by God.
Reflecting these are the seventy-eight works he composed music, grouped in the so-called Symphonia Armonie Celestium revelationum.
Moreover, the Corsican polyphonic singing is inserted into the set of traditional songs of oral transmission that extend throughout the Mediterranean, which also places the song auroros preserved in our region.
This is a song which combines the perception of the very primitive and very refined with a simple musical structure, in which a melody suggests a stern voice and other voices (two or three more) come together to create harmonic support striking contrasts ranging from the medieval dark resonances in parallel fifths and minor modes, to the brightness of the perfect end to major chords.
Meanwhile, on Friday May 28, at 21 am in the artillery barracks, the Coral Discantus and Evil Eye premiere "Night Mediterranean", a concert - show that proposes a date with Mediterranean roots music composer Murcia Salvador Martinez, and in which there is a summary of the most representative creations of the author with new sound proposals that provide a particular vision of the current roots music.
The storyline of the show is a recreation of the most representative styles of popular music in a format Murcia original and modern.
Thus, the salves of Aurora and the music of our crews are brought into its most striking developments in a proper musical development, the result of an interesting and daring compositional style.
A judicious combination of tradition and modernity that allows the viewer, blending unique style and original, and references hear echoes of jazz, rock, classical and flamenco music, with music created from Murcia folklore.
This concert is the fruit of many years experience in working on stages around the world in search of a sound cutting and Levantine southern facing our ancestors nourished the tradition of the three cultures still present in subtle and sometimes hidden substrates popular music of our tradition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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