Divintés Primordiales
General Info
Publisher: Dutch Music Partners
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:28:30
Cost: €327.95
Content
1. CHAOS
2. GAIA
3. NYX
4. ERÈBE
5. HEMERA
6. EROS
7. TARTARE
Instrumentation
Player 1: Glockenspiel
Player 2: Vibraphone 1 & Kalimba & Bass Drum & Timpani
Player 3: Vibraphone 2 & Kalimba & Bass Drum & Timpani
Player 4: Crotales & Xylophone & Bass Drum & Timpani
Player 5: Marimba 1 & Bass Drum & Timpani
Player 6: Marimba 2
Player 7: Marimba 3
Player 8: Marimba 4
Player 9: Chimes
Player 10: Snare Drum & Wood Block & Water Gong (Small) & Bongos & Anvil
Player 11: Field & Tambourine & Water Gong (Large) & Anvil
Player 12: Log Drums & Lion Roar & Roto-Toms & Anvil
Player 13: Boobams & Congas & Spring Drum]] & Anvil
Player 14: Sleigh Bells & Finger Cymbals & Wind Chimes (Glass) & Claves
Player 15: Triangle & Lions Roar
Player 16: Suspended Cymbal & Thunder Sheet
Player 17: Tam Tam
Player 18: Hand Cymbals
Player 19: Bass Drum
Description
Written for the percussion ensemble of the Royal Oude Harmonie Eijsden and Henrico Stevens. Made possible by a contribution from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund. This composition by Vincent Cox for large percussion ensemble musically represents a number of ancient Greek gods. Every god or goddess resonates in his or her own musical story, as a kind of leitmotif.
CHAOS: in Greek mythology the Nothing from which the first gods emerged. Chaos is sometimes depicted as a bottomless void where everything endlessly 'falls', not down, because no orientation is possible, but in all directions. From this vast milling disorder came order in the form of Night, Darkness, Attraction, Underworld and Earth.
GAIA: She is the primordial mother, the Earth, who emerged from Chaos at the beginning of things. The Chaos contained all the basic components, the four elements earth, water, air and fire. Gaia, the goddess of nature, was depicted as a plump woman, often rising from the ground, always attached to it.
NYX: primordial goddess of the night. Even Zeus had great respect for her and did his best to please her. The goddess was rarely truly worshiped in Ancient Greece. The goddess of night rode across the sky in a chariot with two horses in front, laying the dark mists of Erebos over the earth.
ERÈBE: god of darkness. Its dense mists surrounded the edges of the flat earth, filling the dark places below. His sister Nyx (the night) led this dark veil over the earth every evening, while her daughter
Hemera (the day) banished the night every morning. Erebos is also said to be the personification of the three circles of darkness around Tartaros, the realm of the dead.
HEMERA: the divine personification of the day. According to the myth, Hemera would leave Tartaros (the underworld) when Nyx (the night) entered and vice versa. This is how the Greeks explained the natural change between day and night. Hemera was usually seen as the daughter of Nyx and Erebos (the darkness). In the evening, Nyx hung a veil of darkness and let night fall. In the morning Hemera dispersed this mist.
EROS: The primordial god Eros is less known than his namesake, the god of (sensual) love. He is said to be the god of universal love and is the son of Erebos and Nyx. He is also seen as the father of Gaia.
TARTARE: is part of the underworld in Greek mythology, the great, sad realm under the earth, as far away from the earth as the earth is away from heaven. Like Gaia and Eros, he emerged from Chaos. In that shadow kingdom, the god Hades, brother of the supreme god Zeus, held sway. This also made Hades the one in charge of Tartaros, the worst part of the underworld.
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Illusions - Percussion Nonet
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Crystal - Percussion (11); Trumpet
Enigma - Percussion (10)
Rêverie - Percussion (12)
The Tin Soldiers - Percussion (10)
Three Short Images - Percussion (11)
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A Crystallized Memory - Percussion (15)
Quadraphonics 2 - Percussion (14)
Vision (Cox) - Percussion (15)
Where is the Spoon? - Percussion (13)
Where is the Spoon? (Extended Version) - Percussion (14); Alto Saxophone; Tenor Saxophone; Trumpet; Trombone; Bass Trombone
Wooden Puppets - Percussion (13)
Percussion Ensemble with 16-19 Players
Andromeda (Cox) - Percussion (16)
Contemporary Past - Percussion (18)
Divintés Primordiales - Percussion (19)
Episodes (Cox) - Percussion (19)
Exposure- Percussion (18)
Fata Viam Invenient - Percussion (17)
Il Ruscello e la Chiesa - Percussion (19)
Insomnia II - Percussion (17)
Mystic Prophecy - Percussion (17)
Mystic Prophecy (2013 Version) - Percussion (19)
Phantasm - Percussion (18)
Phrenology (Short Version) - Percussion (19)
Shadows of a Dreamworld - Percussion (18)
The Seventh Hour - Percussion (18)
Thought Waves - Percussion (16)
Utopia - Percussion (19)
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Four Imaginary Scenes - Percussion (20)
Inverness - Percussion (21)
Lost in Time - Percussion (22)
Phrenology - Percussion (20); Wind Ensemble
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Revolution (Cox) - Percussion (20)
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The Big Earthquake - Percussion (23)
The Curse of Nazdajivai - Percussion (24)
The Mechanical Ballet - Percussion (25)
Zimbutibatine Mxagakozi - Percussion (21)