Billaudot BACRI NICOLAS - MEDITATION PASTORALE OPUS 157
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Pastoral Meditation was written for the harpist Isabelle Marie, who wanted a brief and poetic piece for flute, viola, and harp.
Serenity, simplicity, archaism, but also calmness and softness, form the atmosphere in which the composer worked on this piece, drawing from the mood of his earlier, more diatonic works. The music was composed with a type of pastoral and psychological description in mind, close to an imaginary poem that was later discovered.
The first theme, based on a pentatonic motif, is presented by the harp in the low register, anchoring the tonal center (E minor) on the A mode. After a first phrase, a second, twin phrase reiterates what has already been heard until the flute proposes a short phrase developing a conclusive motivic element from the first phrase. The viola, followed by the flute over a harp ostinato, will lead us toward an almost second theme, which can be considered the true second phrase of the first theme.
The second theme, in A minor, is also pentatonic and marked Delicatissimo. After the partial reprise of the exposition, the development follows a very tight motivic logic while offering necessary variations in texture, such as a trill from the viola echoed by the harp or a chromatic fugue sketch proposed by the flute and viola, superbly ignored by the harp, which prefers to open a dialogue with its two partners before obstinately continuing two untimely fifths presented by the viola.
The recapitulation will first present the second theme in a versatile tonal context, ultimately polarizing on E-flat major, the key on which the flute will reintroduce the second phrase of the first theme, then the viola the first phrase, all transformed, concluding the work in the peace of a vesperal atmosphere, promising a calm and tranquil night.
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