Lemoine Levinas - Les Désinences - Piano et Claviers Midi
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Summary of This Score
With Les Désinences, Michaël Levinas explores what he describes as the "tears of sounds": those subtle pitch inclinations and internal beats that arise in the piano's resonance, in contact with its strings and harmonics. The work relies on a very fine listening to the attack transients and the sound's gradations, transformed into compositional material and harmonic trajectories.
The piece is based on a rhythmic and harmonic polyphonic writing, often conceived as a kind of chorale whose inner lines are richly ornamented. The increasingly complex progressions and modulations echo certain historical practices (French Baroque, late German Baroque), while asserting a decidedly contemporary language through the use of MIDI keyboards and new pitch scales.
The instrumental work highlights specific playing techniques : management of half-pedaling, broad legato, voice leading and broken chords, with a touch approach that can evoke, in spirit, substitution and legato techniques close to organists and jazz musicians. After an initial sketch for solo piano, the development at Ircam deepened the variations on the endings, attacks, and the creation of non-tempered scales played on MIDI keyboards, making harmony and polyphony a reciprocal causality at the heart of the form.
Technical specifications
| Musical Genre | Classical | Publication | Sheet music |
| Composer | Michaël Levinas | Genre | contemporary score |
| Instrumentation | acoustic piano and MIDI keyboards | ||
Questions frequently asked
What instrumentation is required for Les Désinences by Michaël Levinas?
The score is written for acoustic piano and MIDI keyboards.
Can Les Désinences be performed on piano alone?
The work originates from an initial sketch for solo piano. However, its development incorporates MIDI keyboards to play non-tempered pitch scales. The indicated instrumentation thus combines acoustic piano and MIDI keyboards.
What piano techniques are required in this score?
The writing emphasizes half-pedaling, wide legato, voice leading, and broken chords. The touch also involves substitution and legato principles reminiscent of certain organist and jazz musician practices.
Does the score use micro-intervals or non-tempered sounds?
MIDI keyboards are involved in producing non-tempered scales. The language also explores subtle pitch inflections and internal beats resulting from the piano's resonance.
What is the musical style of this work by Michaël Levinas?
This contemporary score belongs to the classical genre and is based on rhythmic and harmonic polyphony. Some progressions and modulations refer to French Baroque as well as late German Baroque.
