Baquetas e Lâminas
by Sérgio Azevedo (1968)
Ref. ava080227
In May 2008, the Music School of the
Orfeão de Leiria commissioned me a series
of short pieces for the winners of the
Music Contest for Young Players and
Singers, a contest they organize every
year. Those pieces would be given to the
winners the year prior to the first audition
in the next contest, as part of the prize. So
I wrote ten short pieces for the winners of
2008 contest, ten very different pieces and
for very different grades of difficulty: 2
flutes, saxophone, violin & piano, cello &
piano, percussion ensemble (2 marimbas
and a vibraphone), children’s choir &
piano, 2 trombones, piano, guitar and harp.
The pieces all have different styles and
moods, from the solemnity of the guitar
piece to the almost jazzy (even “rocky”)
music of the percussion and saxophone
pieces, not forgetting the modal lyricism of
the harp and the humour and panache of
the works for violin, cello and trombone.
The aim was to enrich the study repertoire
for these instruments, although for the
most part of the pieces, the idea of
“didactic music” is very far from what I
wrote, since the rule in this kind of
didactic music is to be more “didactic”
than “music”…