Murallas

For Conductor and Chinese Ensemble Omar Fraire

Dedicated to Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

***)
video
[10'' ca.]
1'00''
Traditional [Taiwan] USA anthem
Sheng 1 Chinese piece / pop song
[Taiwan] morendo... .. . .

P [Taiwan]
[Taiwan] ƒ pos.
[Taiwan]
p
[Taiwan] [Taiwan]

[Taiwan] USA anthem

Dadi 2 Traditional / pop song
Chinese piece [Taiwan] morendo... .. . .

F ƒ pos. p
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
Traditional [Taiwan] USA anthem
Yangqin 3 Chinese piece [Taiwan] [Taiwan] / pop song
[Taiwan]
p
**)

ƒ p
morendo... .. . .
[Taiwan] [Taiwan]
[Taiwan] pos.
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan] [Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
USA anthem
Pipa 4 Traditional [Taiwan] / pop song
Chinese piece [Taiwan] morendo... .. . .
[Taiwan]

P ƒ pos. p
[Taiwan]

[Taiwan]

[Taiwan] [Taiwan]
Traditional USA anthem
Zhongruan 5 Chinese piece [Taiwan] / pop song
[Taiwan]

ƒ p
morendo... .. . .

f
[Taiwan]
pos.
[Taiwan] [Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
Traditional USA anthem
Zheng 6 / pop song
Chinese piece [Taiwan] morendo... .. . .

F ƒ pos. p
[Taiwan]
[Taiwan]
*) [Taiwan]
[Taiwan] [Taiwan]
Traditional USA anthem
Erhu 7 Chinese piece ****) / pop song

p p
morendo... .. . .

ƒ pos.
[Taiwan]

2'30'' ca
2018
PERFORMANCE NOTES
Virginia
*) Choose and play any traditional song or melody from China or Taiwan. Aim for contrast each time it happens.
**) Say the word "China or Taiwan" within the dynamic range already playing (don't stop playing).
***) Video starts on conductor signal ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99SFzQImurE ).
****) Transform previous melody (if possible) to USA national anthem or choose and play any comercial Pop from USA.

CONDUCTOR NOTES PROGRAM NOTES

Murallas is a miniature process which evolves through acumulation of tradicional songs Power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared, something that one holds on to
until a climax where the video is triggered and music decreases, playing a cloud made of USA national anthem or allows to slip away; power is exercised from innumerable points, in the interplay of
or a comercial Pop songs. None of the songs need to be in synch. non-egalitarian and mobile relations. Where there is power, there is resistance.
The conductor decides when approximately each of the instruments start playing (in the order stablished on score). Walls serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify,
control, and regulate people.
He also triggers and builds the cloud of words (China/Taiwan) and gives the signal to start the video.
FDC
He must control the gradual growing of the dinamics and its dissapearance.