Faculty Recital
"Iache Salpinx"
By Robert Pound
Jack Sutte, trumpet
Craig Ketter, piano
"The rage of Achilles sing, O Goddess …"
Thus begins Homer's epic "The Iliad," a cornerstone work of Western literature dating back almost three millennia. The poem was originally presented as a sung performance over the course of three full evenings.
Robert Pound's musical composition "Iache Salpinx" (The Trumpet Cries Out), commissioned by trumpeter Jack Sutte, sings the epic again through trumpet and piano, deriving its materials directly from pitch and rhythmic elements of Ancient Greek.
The piece adapts Greek's accentual pitch patterns and quantitative phonemic structure, combined with a musical "alphabet" for the language's 20 phonemic elements, and contextualizes these in each of the three scalar types from Ancient Greek music: the diatonic, the chromatic, and the enharmonic. These technical elements combined with rich text painting yield a vivid musical tapestry depicting some of the epic's key scenes.
Duration: approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes
Event is free and open to the public.
No tickets required.
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