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Ligare

Composer: Lunsqui, Alexandre

Number of Players: 2
Instrumentation: Flute and Percussion (3 woodblocks, 4 Almglocken, Bongos, Shaker, Metal Rods and two Timbales
Difficulty: Advanced
The western flute and percussion families have natural counterparts in folkloric music the world over. Afro-Brazilian music is no exception. In Ligare, ('linked'), Brazilian composer Alexandre Lunsqui utilizes this natural affinity to great advantage. Ligare is a piece that literally links the two instrumental colors into a rapid flow of singular gestures. The performers are frequently connected in rhythmic unisons clearly informed by the Afro-Brazilian rhythmic vocabulary. Yet Lunsqui is not writing in imitation of such music. He transcends it with a sculptured sonic sensibility that is unmistakably modern and individual. Ligare links the contemporary with the folkloric, succeeding in a beautiful fusion representative of the celebratory aspects of musical globalization. (text by Greg Beyer)