Product Description
Mientras dormías (Spanish
for While You Were Sleeping) is a
simple neoclassical and postmodern lullaby, composed (in its original version)
for solo piano. (To say of a lullaby that it is simple is quite foreseeable: the striking thing would be a complex
lullaby.)
The unspoken
interlocutor, the "you" alluded to, can be anyone: son, lover, pet
... but also a sleeping audience whom you try to shake with your harangue,
informing them of what they have just lost, of what happened while they were
distracted.
Technically, it
is a simple deconstruction or recontextualization of the famous Wiegenlied by Johannes Brahms. Hence the
categorization of postmodern, due to
the use of the camouflaged quotation
as an essential structuring device (although a well-prepared musicologist should
better not read this).
Character: gentle andante (walking).
Piece composed in Bremen (Germany),
November 17 and 18, 2020.
Duration: approximately 3:45.
International Standard Musical Work Code
(ISWC): T-301.822.636-9
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