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Huacas

Composer
Csapó Gyula
Original / Hungarian title
Huacas
Foreign language / English title
Huacas
Subtitle
Cantata for soprano and chamber ensemble
Dedication
"to all living victims of the Conquista and the Conquest – and to Pierre Boulez in gratitude for his "Le Marteau sans Maître""
Year of composition
2008
Type
Solo voice(s) with ensemble
Number of players
7
Instrumentation
S. - fl. (anche picc.), cl. (anche cl.b.) - perc. (2 esec.) - strings: vl., vlc.
Movements, parts
1. No. 1 Recitativo Español I: Nuestros pecados
2. No. 2 Recitativo Español II: Huacas
3. [No. 3 Insert: Hallucination I: Aztec Incantation (Preliminary)]
4. No. 2 Recitativo Español II: Huacas – conclusion
5. No. 4 Hallucination II: Aztec Dance-Incantation
6. No. 5 Gregorian Refuge
7. No. 6 Transformaciones Mexicanos I
8. No. 7 Transformaciones Mexicanos II
9. No. 8 AzTectonics
10. No. 9 Transformaciones Mexicanos III
11. No. 10 Hallucination III. (Glossolalia, Nahuatl)
12. No. 11 Transformaciones Mexicanos IV
13. No. 12 Recitativo (Interlude I)
14. No. 13 Aztec Prayer for Safe Passage (Nahuatl)
15. No. 14 Hallucinations (Interlude II)
16. No. 15 Agnus Dei
17. No. 16 Transformaciones Mexicanos V (Postlude I)
18. No. 17 Interlude III
19. No. 18 Kyrie
20. No. 19 Transformation–Postlude II (Rezitativ–Gregorian)
21. No. 20 Residual Gregorian
22. [No. 21 Insert: Aztec Dance-Hallucination IV]
23. No. 20 Residual Gregorian – conclusion
24. No. 22 Postlude III
25. No. 23 Miserere Nobis
Text
ALARCÓN, Hernando Ruiz de; Latin liturgical; CSAPÓ, Gyula
Language
Nahuatl / Spanish / English / pseudo Nahuatl / Glossolalia
Commissioned by
Canada Council for the Arts
Premiere information
20 April 2008, Tha Music Gallery, Toronto; Carla Huhtanen (S.), Continuum Ensemble: Anne Thompson (fl.), Max Christie (cl.), Benjamin Bowman (vl.), Paul Widner (vlc.) Ryan Scott (perc.), Trevor Tureski (perc.), Gregory Oh (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Canadian Music Centre 2008
Available here!
Remarks, other info
Text based on the following sources:

1.) Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón: Tratado de las supersticiones y costumbres gentilicas que oy viuen entre los indios naturales desta Nueva España, 1629

2.) Richard J. Andrews and Ross Hassig translators: Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984; Second Treatise, Chapter 1, pp. 75, 77, 78. (An English translation of the Alarcón treatise)

3.) Latin Mass texts

4.) Invented text (glossolalia)