Bouchara (subtitled "chanson d'amour") is a 1981 work for mixed chamber ensemble by Canadian composer Claude Vivier.[1] It was originally intended to serve as an interlude for his unfinished opera Rêves d'un Marco Polo (1983-), but was published independently of the opera after weeks of deliberation.[2] A typical performance lasts around twelve minutes.[2]
Composition
editThe piece was premiered on 14 February 1983, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.[3]
Program notes
editThe notes given by Vivier in the finished manuscript:
Bouchara se veut une longue chanson d'amour... le texte entier est une langue inventée, une langue d'amour, histoire se répétant éternellement.
Bouchara is meant to be a long love song... the entire text is sung in an invented language, a language of love, a story which repeats itself continually.[3]
Instrumentation
editThe work is written for a mixed ensemble of solo soprano, wind quintet, string quintet, and percussion battery.[3]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Lankenau et al. (2012), p. 50.
- ^ a b Gilmore (2014), p. 319.
- ^ a b c Lankenau et al. (2012), p. 31.
Sources
edit- Braes, Ross (2003). An Investigation of the Jeux De Timbres in Claude Vivier's Orion and His Other Instrumental Works of 1979-80. University of British Columbia Press.
- Christian, Bryan William (2015). Cardano: Chamber Opera for Three Singers, Actor, and Ensemble and "Combination-Tone Class Sets and Redefining the Role of les Couleurs in Claude Vivier's 'Bouchara'". Duke University's Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Gilmore, Bob (2014). Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life. University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1-58046-841-1.
- Lankenau, Steven; Chan, Trudy; Gewirtz, Eric (2012). Vivier Works: Claude Vivier (PDF). Boosey and Hawkes.
