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The Spirits of Cahuachi
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Large Ensemble Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn, Harp, Oboe, Percussion, Trombone, Viola, Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1088411
Composed by Antonio Gervasoni. This edition: pdf. Classical, Contemporary. Score and parts. 69 pages. Antonio Gervasoni #692676. Published by Antonio Gervasoni (A0.1088411).
Single-movement work for 10 musicians. The Spirits of Cahuachi draws its inspiration from Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska's remarkable study Behind the Silence: Music in the Nasca Culture, which chronicles the 1994 archaeological discovery of several clay antaras (Andean pan flutes) in a temple at Cahuachi, the political and cultural heart of the ancient Nasca civilization. Dr. Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska's meticulous analysis of these artifacts revealed the precise tones each clay tube could produce, documented in detailed tables within her book. This composition transforms those ancient pitches—translated into their approximate equivalents within our modern tuning system—into contemporary musical language. The historical tones are treated as raw material for diverse compositional approaches: sometimes forming chords, sometimes generating scales, occasionally functioning as pitch-class sets that are fragmented and then layered in overlapping patterns. The composition makes no attempt to reconstruct or imitate ancient Nasca music, for such music remains unknowable to us. Nothing of their musical practice survived except these tones themselves—these "spirits" preserved within the clay pipes of the Cahuachi antaras, waiting across centuries to speak again through contemporary musical expression.
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Large Ensemble Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn, Harp, Oboe, Percussion, Trombone, Viola, Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1088411
Composed by Antonio Gervasoni. This edition: pdf. Classical, Contemporary. Score and parts. 69 pages. Antonio Gervasoni #692676. Published by Antonio Gervasoni (A0.1088411).
Single-movement work for 10 musicians. The Spirits of Cahuachi draws its inspiration from Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska's remarkable study Behind the Silence: Music in the Nasca Culture, which chronicles the 1994 archaeological discovery of several clay antaras (Andean pan flutes) in a temple at Cahuachi, the political and cultural heart of the ancient Nasca civilization. Dr. Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska's meticulous analysis of these artifacts revealed the precise tones each clay tube could produce, documented in detailed tables within her book. This composition transforms those ancient pitches—translated into their approximate equivalents within our modern tuning system—into contemporary musical language. The historical tones are treated as raw material for diverse compositional approaches: sometimes forming chords, sometimes generating scales, occasionally functioning as pitch-class sets that are fragmented and then layered in overlapping patterns. The composition makes no attempt to reconstruct or imitate ancient Nasca music, for such music remains unknowable to us. Nothing of their musical practice survived except these tones themselves—these "spirits" preserved within the clay pipes of the Cahuachi antaras, waiting across centuries to speak again through contemporary musical expression.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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