Name: Le Marteau sans maître ... René Char (2025) - Score Only by Thomas Oboe Lee Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Le Marteau sans maître ... René Char (2025) - Score Only
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Title Le Marteau sans maître ... René Char (2025) - Score Only

Artist Thomas Oboe Lee

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Thomas Oboe Lee

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 26

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Thomas Oboe Lee

Level 4

Product ID 1810308

Genre Classical Contemporary Chamber 21st Century

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You cannot escape as a graduate student in composition from Pierre Boulez's "Le Marteau sans maître." It surely was a ground breaking chamber work in the mid-fifties for contralto, alto flute, viola, guitar, vibraphone and various percussion instruments.

The scholarly and critical reactions to Le Marteau were all over the map. Igor Stravinsky praised the work as an exemplar of "a new and wonderfully supple kind of music." Richard Taruskin found "Le Marteau exemplified the lack of concern on the part of the modernist composers for the comprehensibility of their music." Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote that the work featured "nothing so vulgar as a melody or a steady beat." Howard Goodall, a British composer of musical theater and film music, said "While Boulez's iconoclasm was attractive to some composers of twentieth-century classical music, most neutral listeners then as now found both his polemic and his music thoroughly impenetrable.

My version has nothing to do with Boulez. As a matter of fact, Boulez cheated and took a short cut. He used only three lines from René Char's poem "Le Marteau sans maître."

1. L'Artisanat furieux
2. Bourreaux de solitude
3. Bel Édifice et les pressentiments

I on the other hand have set all 18 poems from the first book, or chapter, called Arsenal.

Première partie
I. La Torche du prodigue
II. Vérité continue
III. Possible

Deuxième partie
IV. Tréma de lémondeur
V. Robustes météores
VI. Transfuges

Troisième partie
VII. Masque de fer
VIII. Un levain barbare
IX. À lhorizon remarquable

Quatrième partie
X. Singulier
XI. Leçon sévère
XII. Bel édifice et les pressentiments

Cinquième partie
XIII. La rose violente
XIV. Voici
XV. Lamour

Sixième partie
XVI. Sosie
XVII. Dentelée
XVIII. Les poumons

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