5 singers
Recorder, Positive organ
Recorder, Positive organ
The rhetorical figure of “suspiratio” is the musical counterpart of the speaker’s vocal effects which aim at emphasising the pathetic in the words
or the feelings conveyed by the words.
In music it is expressed by the crotchet rest, that is, silence.
Nothing is more unspeakable than silence.
Nothing is more conflicting with the musical language.
But nothing is more expressive, nearer to any listener than the disruption of sounds by silence similar to a sigh of love or a sigh of grief.
Therefore suspiration is particularly suitable to express the unspeakable in the musical language.
Programme in progress
Works by N. Gombert, C. Gesualdo, C. Monteverdi, H. Schütz, J. Cage, G. Scelsi, D. Vasseur
Translation / André Calmein
or the feelings conveyed by the words.
In music it is expressed by the crotchet rest, that is, silence.
Nothing is more unspeakable than silence.
Nothing is more conflicting with the musical language.
But nothing is more expressive, nearer to any listener than the disruption of sounds by silence similar to a sigh of love or a sigh of grief.
Therefore suspiration is particularly suitable to express the unspeakable in the musical language.
Programme in progress
Works by N. Gombert, C. Gesualdo, C. Monteverdi, H. Schütz, J. Cage, G. Scelsi, D. Vasseur
Translation / André Calmein
