Oda a las Ranas (Fine, Vivian)

		Movements/Sections One movement Composition Year 1980 Genre Categories Odes; For female chorus, flute, oboe, vibraphone, percussion, cello; Scores featuring female chorus; Scores featuring the flute; Scores featuring the oboe; Scores featuring the vibraphone; Scores featuring percussion soloists; Scores featuring the cello; For chorus with solo instruments

Performances

• Recordings (1)

Recordings

 Complete performance
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rhymesandchymes (2012/8/3)

Performers:

Veil of Isis vocal ensemble
Jane Lenoir, flute; William Banovetz, oboe; Carol Negro, bassoon;
Sandra Mabee, percussion; Joan Gallegos, conductor

Publisher Info.:

Vivian Fine Estate

Copyright:

Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0 [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Recorded live July 29, 1983, Berkeley, California

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Sheet Music

• Scores (1)

Scores

 Complete score and poem with translation
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rhymesandchymes (2012/8/3)

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Vivian Fine Estate

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General Information

Work Title	Oda a las Ranas
Alternative Title

Composer	Fine, Vivian
Movements/Sections	One movement
Year/Date of Composition	1980
First Performance	1981-06-13 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Anna Crusis Women’s Ensemble, Jean Leavitt, narrator, Lore Silverberg, flute, Mary Ellen Corwin, oboe, Lori Barnett, cello, Flossie Ierardi, percussion, Catherine Roma, conductor
Librettist	Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Language	Spanish
Average Duration	11 1/2 minutes
Piece Style	Modern
Instrumentation	Women’s chorus, flute, oboe, cello and percussion

Misc. Comments

Fine divided the women’s choir into four parts and chose a simple instrumentation of flute, oboe, and cello with a colorful array of percussion using ratchets, gongs, cymbals, castanets, and vibraphone. The vibraphone provides pitch support, and at one point…the voices are asked to match the vibraphone timbre. Like she did in the nightingale texts in previoius music, Fine enjoyed writing froglike text painting, using quivering figures and doubly dotted rhythms to portray the text and having the cello add percussive textures of snapped and glissandi pizzicati. Frequently the voices are doubled by the instruments, making Oda a las Ranas accessible.

—Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999