PAUL BOWLES. TAMANAR for Piano. A Paul Bowles. Archive Publication

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1 PAUL BOWLES TAMANAR for Piao A Paul Boles PB Archie Pulicatio

2 2 Tamaar PAUL BOWLES Bor Decemer 30, 1910, i amaica, Quees, NY Died Noemer 18, 1999, i Tagier, Morocco PROGRAM NOTE Paul Boles s stuigly deft achieemets as a fictio riter ad memoirist lay may years ahead of him he he first arried i Morocco i 1931, a tety-year-old ould-e comoser traelig i the comay of his musical metor, Aaro Colad. Nor did the youth hae ay susicio that he ould later graitate reeatedly to Morocco, fially makig it his home for the last fie decades of his life. Boles ad Colad merely iteded a stay of seeral moths, durig hich they ould ork o their music i Tagier hile takig side tris all aroud the coutry. Their soour roed creatiely fruitful. Colad ega oe of his most challegig orchestral scores, the Short Symhoy; Boles commeced Tamaar, a four-ad-a-half-miute iao iece reflectig some of his earliest imressios of Morocco. Tamaar eriodically occuied Boles durig his ext year-ada-half of gloetrottig (he recalled that his Berli eighors so disliked its loud dissoaces that they screamed ester zu! [ Shut the ido! ] heeer he ega ork). Reachig comletio i Aril 1933, the iece roed to e a artistic reakthrough for the comoser. Tamaar takes its ame from a southester coastal illage miday etee Essaouira ad Agadir. The road east from Tamaar through the Marrakesh lais affords oe of the orld s most imosig moutai istas. Here, the highest eaks of the Atlas rage loom some 13,000 feet aoe sea-leel, grim, ad garled, stiled ith ast tracts of lack sea-floor asalt that gie them a foriddig aearace. I Tamaar Boles attemted to recature the mood of gradeur ad meace this sigular atural heomeo eokes. Still fidig his oice as a comoser i 1933, Boles roduced a dissoat, truculet, rather Teutoic ork. Ideed, Tamaar is startlig ulike his later ieces, here Gallic lightheartedess ad charm ould redomiate amid a cotext of toal euhoy. The comoser himself as somehat emused y Tamaar he the mauscrit, lost for aout half a cetury, tured u three years efore his death (at that time, he roided the temo idicatios icluded i the reset score ad clarified some dyamic markigs). I Tamaar the youg comoser may hae ee iflueced y a semially imortat keyoard ork recetly comleted y his teacher: Colad s siky, austere, roto-serial Piao Variatios of Blessed ith a atural flair for comositio, Boles shoed igeuity i draig cotrasted exressie qualities from Tamaar s cetral melodic idea, hich regularly alterates ith arrays of gratig moutai-crag chords. This melodizig first aears as a seere aritoe-register roclamatio, later takes o dreamy istfuless i a quasi-caoic statemet, ad still later reeters i urget rhythmic dimiutio. The climax is ell-udged, ad Boles s moredo coda ties u loose eds ith cosiderale grace. Oe otatioal eculiarity as Boles s decisio to disese ith time-sigatures i Tamaar desite its cotiually shiftig meters. Eidetly he felt that the ork s steady quarter-ote ulsatio roided all the guidace the layer eeded. The oly detail, i fact, that might tri u some iaists is the quirky, ad ot articularly coicig, rhythm of measure 112. It almost goes ithout sayig that, hile the erformer should scruulously aoid Romatic lierties (Boles detested excessie ruato), Tamaar demads far more exressie ad coloristic uace tha could e rogramed ito the MIDI-realizatio roduced y this file. Beami olkma Tamaar is osted ith the kid ermissio of Iree Herrma, Paul Boles s musical heir.

3 Moderato f Ú ca Tamaar for Piao Paul rederic Boles. 6.. N f y Paul Boles

4 4 21 f.. N P 36

5 5 41. N P 50 P P 56

6 π leggiero f 68 f N P

7 ƒ staccato π

8 8 98 oco meo mosso ƒ π molto

9 118 Ú ca ƒ semre.. 9

10 f f f Temo I.. f f..

11 m o r e d o π Tager Aug Ar. 1933

Practice Guide Sonata in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1, I. Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven

Practice Guide Sonata in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1, I. Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven Practice Guide Soata i F Mior, O 2, No 1, I Allegro Ludwig va Beethove Comosed i 1795, the Soata i F Mior, O 2, No 1 was dedicated to Hayd, whom Beethove admired ad had briefly studied with three years