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SCENE FROM EURIPIDES’ MEDEA

AARON GERVAIS

SCENE FROM EURIPIDES’ MEDEA

AARON GERVAIS

December 2004 Approximate Duration: 12’00

INSTRUMENTATION

• Flute, doubling on piccolo • Oboe • Clarinet in Bb • Bassoon • Horn in F • Freebass accordion • Violin • Violoncello

• Medea: soprano (C4 – C#6) • Jason: baritone (Bb2 – G4)

Text based on the translation by Philip Vellacott. SCENE BACKGROUND This scene starts just before Medea and Jason’s first meeting. She has learned that Jason is to marry Creon’s daughter and has just had her conversation with Creon, in which she is banished from Corinth. Jason arrives after Medea’s initial statement and each tries to blame the other for their complicated situation. Jason claims that the marriage is purely political and aimed at ensuring a better future for Medea and their children. Medea sees Jason as a self-serving liar who has abandoned her for money and a younger woman. They argue without result and then both storm off. NOTATION All instruments play senza vibrato unless otherwise marked. Quartertones are notated in the score as follows. Fingerings are not provided for woodwind quartertones because they vary between individual instruments. The titles of several resources for quartertone woodwind fingerings are listed below.

New Sounds for Woodwinds – Bruno Bartolozzi, trans. Reginald Smith Brindle The Woodwinds: Performance and Instructional Techniques – Everett L. Timm The Other Flute: a Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques – Robert Dick The Avant-Garde Flute – Thomas Howell Metodo per Oboe – Lawrence Singer, trans. Reginald Smith Brindle New Directions for Clarinet – Phillip Rehfeldt The Twentieth Century Clarinetist – Allen Sigel Il fagotto: altre techniche: nuove fonti di espressione musicale – Sergio Penazzi General Notation

Placeholder stems, used to mark duration for a glissando.

Crescendo from silence, diminuendo to silence.

The figure is repeated at irregular intervals ranging between 4 and 6 seconds apart, for the duration of the line.

Vocal Notation

Lowest pitch.

Sprechgesang, partially between singing and speaking.

Sung in a free flowing rhythm, at the performer’s discretion.

Woodwind Notation

Airy almost–pitchless sound using the fingering for the given note.

Air blown through the instrument without producing a definite pitch.

Breathe as needed or circular breathing.

Forceful kissing of the reed(s) or mouthpiece in such a manner as to produce a sharp percussive “smack”.

Flute: airy sound moving from silence to a tongue ram and then quickly moving back to silence.

Accordion Notation

Cluster of all chromatic pitches between the two noteheads.

Same as above but used when the physical space between notes on the staff is narrow.

Approximate pitch cluster: all chromatic notes in the general area of the square notehead.

String Notation

Gradually moving from no vibrato to a full vibrato.

A full vibrato for the duration of the wavy line.

Gradually moving from normal playing position to sul ponticello and back again.

Scene from Euripides' Medea Aaron Gervais

Transposed ScoreDistant q = 76

accel. Faster q = 84

Clarinet in Bb

Bassoon

Horn in F

Accordion

Violin

Violoncello

Accord.

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poco rit.

Accord.

3 3 3 3

solo, freely

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A Slightly faster, aggressive q = 92

IIIpure gliss.; no articulation of attacks unless marked

poco rit.

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B Slower, delicate q = 6017

Accord.

non-dim.

I not suf

wronged?

am hat

ed- and my

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Accord.

non-dim.

child ren-

cursed.

mfforceful

take them with their fa

con sord.

non-dim.

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(3+4+4+4)25

C Slower, wandering q = 56

Accord.

possibile

- this

house!

solo, freelypure gliss.; no articulation of attacks unless marked

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3 3 53

have of ten- no

ticed;-

this is not

the first

Suddenly faster, agitated q = 84

cas sion;-

what fa

tal- re sults

- fol low- from un gov

- erned-

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D a tempo q = 5635

Accord.

have stayed

Cor inth,

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(4+3+4+4)38

Accord.

af ter- your ab use

- of the king,

count your self- luck

y- to be left

off with

(non-gliss.)

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E Faster, distant but growing q = 76

Accord.

ish- ment!-

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rubato colla voce

F a tempo, quasi-romatic

Accord.

mpexpressive

senza sord.

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Accord.

calm him down,

would not

give up

ri di- cu

- lous-

f mp f

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GSlower, calm q = 60

Accord.

non-dim.

ti rades

a gainst

cautiously

non-dim.

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Accord.

ev er,

I will not

de sert- a friend;

I come

to see

that you

and the child

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H Faster, aggressive q = 72

Accord.

enraged

thy- cow ard!-

not sent

a way-

with an emp

ty- purse

un pro- vi

- ded-

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Accord.

3 3 5 3

kiss/smack

I knew an

y- worse

for such un man

- li- ness,-

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molto rit. I Slightly faster, quasi-romatic q = 76

Accord.

use it!

expressive

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Accord.

to picc.

to mas

re- breath

ing- bulls,

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Accord.

the dead

ly- fur

will ing- ly

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rubato colla voce J Slower, delicate q = 60

Accord.

ceived my fa

ther,-

show ing-

port.3

sub. p

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80poco rit. Slightly slower, tense q = 56

Accord.

to flute

lit tle-

wis dom.

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molto accel.

Accord.

smack/kiss

passionate

in re turn

- for this,

you have the wick

ed- ness-

to turn me

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87L Faster q = 92

Accord.

to picc.

ev en-

af ter- I had borne you sons!

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Accord.

mp sempre legato

3 3 53

mp sempre legato

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Accord.

pp sempre legato

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Accord.

sul tasto

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N Slower q = 60102

Accord.

ord.solo

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Accord.

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Accord.

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O Free tempo q = ca. 60110

Accord.

ad lib.

= 4'' - 6''

freely

be gin- with,

hold that cre

dit- for my suc cess- ful- voy age-

sole ly- due

ad lib.

= 1.5'' - 2.5''

con sord.ad lib.

jetétasto

= 2'' - 3.5''

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in tempo q = 60

Accord.

to Aph ro- di- te;-

one else,

vine- or hu man.-

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112 P Free tempo q = ca. 60

Accord.

ad lib.

= 2'' - 4''

ad lib.

= 3'' - 5''

ther- more,-

was not,

you re sent- ful- ly- as sume,-

ad lib.

= 1.5'' - 2.5''

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in tempo q = 60

Accord.

I found your at trac- tions- wea ri- some,-

was smit ten- with de sire- for a new wife.

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115 accel.

Faster, quasi-romatic q = 84rubato colla voce

Q a tempo

Accord.

expressive

want ed- to en sure,

Scene from Medea35

Accord.

mp non-dim.

first,

and the most im port

- ant,

we should

Scene from Medea36

rubato colla voce

R Slower q = 63

Accord.

3 to flute

and not

sub. p

defeated

sub. p

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S accel.

Accord.

know how apoor

man is shunned

by allhis friends.

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Building q = 72128 a tempo q = 60 accel.

Accord.

130 T Faster q = 84 rit.

Accord.

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a tempo q = 60133accel.

Accord.

Faster q = 84

molto rit.

U Still q = 45

Accord.

loathe your

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Accord.

pros per- ous- fu

ture;-

I'll have

none of it.

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molto rit.141

V Slightly faster, brooding q = 56poco rit. a tempo

Accord.

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X Free tempo157

freelymp

not pur sue- this fur ther.-

there's an y- thing- else I can prov ide- to

meet the child ren's- needs,

freelymp

thing- would in duce- me to take an y- gift of yours,

of fer- none.

in tempo, menacing q = 60

gifts of a ly ing- trai tor- car ry- no luck!

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Accord.

I call

on the gods

to wit

that I

have done my

(senza quint)

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Accord.

fff non-dim.

best to help you

and the child

fff non-dim.

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Z Meandering

solo, freely

169 rit. Slower q = 56

174rit.

pizz.l.v.

Scene from Medea49

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