CERCO UN PAESE INNOCENTE

(1994)

MUSIC BY MICHAEL MANTLER TEXTS BY GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI

A SUITE OF SONGS AND INTERLUDES

FOR VOICE

AND UNTYPICAL BIG BAND

WITH SOLOISTS

Copyright © 1994 Michael Mantler Publisher: Ernste Musik All Rights Reserved Texts from "Tutte le poesie" by Giuseppe Ungaretti Copyright © 1992 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A. Used and re-printed by permission

INSTRUMENTATION (OF ORIGINAL RECORDING)

VOICE SOLOISTS 1 TRUMPET 1 ELECTRIC GUITAR 1 VIOLIN 2 VIOLAS 1 CELLO 1 PIANO BIG BAND 1 FLUTE, ALTO FLUTE, SOPRANO SAX 1 FLUTE, CLARINET, SOPRANO SAX 1 CLARINET, BASS CLARINET, FLUTE 1 CLARINET, SOPRANO SAX 1 CLARINET, BASS CLARINET, FLUTE 5 TRUMPETS, FLUEGELHORNS 3 TROMBONES 1 BASS TROMBONE 1 BASS TROMBONE, TUBA 1 SYNTHESIZER 1 BASS 1 DRUMS 1 PERCUSSION

TITLES AND DURATIONS

duration

1 INTRODUZIONE 2:07 2 GIROVAGO 4:13 3 INTERMEZZO 1 2:37 4 ETERNO / STASERA 4:19 5 INTERMEZZO 2 2:40 6 PERCHE? 4:53 7 SEMPRE NOTTE 2:32 8 INIZIO 1 / SOLITUDINE / LONTANO 2:47 9 INIZIO 2 / L’ILLUMINATA RUGIADA / PROVERBI UNO 2:35 10 INTERMEZZO 3 1:16 11 DESTINO / RILUCERE INVEDUTO / UN’ALTRA NOTTE 3:45 12 SE UNA TUA MANO 5:03 13 INTERMEZZO 4 1:27 14 VANITA 2:44 15 QUANDO UN GIORNO / LE ANSIE 3:44 16 E SENZA FIATO 2:58 17 INTERMEZZO 5 1:26 18 NON GRIDATE PIU 4:31 19 TUTTO HO PERDUTO 5:38 61:41

NOTES concert score there are no key signatures accidentals apply to measure and octave only THESE ARE REDUCED SCORES, NOT THE FULL ORIGINAL ORCHESTRATIONS