Quatre façons de décrire le rock – Bruno Giner

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Quatre façons de décrire le rock – Bruno Giner

Score for plucked instruments orchestra. Full score and parts.

Instruments:

Mandolines 1, 2 & 3

Mandoles 1 & 2

Mandoloncelle

Guitar 1, 2, 3 & 4

Doublebass

The title of the work is an allusion to German composer Hanns Eisler’s exile work Quatorze manières de décrire la pluie (Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain). In four movements, the piece draws its inspiration not from the rain, but from the rock culture of the 1970s and 80s, in an attempt to revisit various facets of this popular musical expression and identify some of its archetypes: form, rhythm, energy, sound distortion, harmonic stability…

• Electric Rhapsodie: this first movement is based mainly on energy and distorted sound.
• Gypsy Rock: in a mixed style, this is a kind of ostinato built on a traditional rock bass superimposed on an overall gypsy rumba rhythm. A few vocal onomatopoeias punctuate this movement, like an allusion to the different drum cymbals (ride, crash and hi-hat).
• Nathalie’s Ballad Forever: a more intimate piece (8 solo instruments), this is a kind of blues in the pure ballad tradition.
• Funky-jazz: freely inspired by jazz-rock, the starting rhythm (double bass and muffled guitars) is the rewriting of a drum set. The rhythm underlying the entire movement is very funky: rhythm, energy and virtuosity are the keys.