Pilgrimage Song: Bertrandon de la Broquière (2005)

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1 Todd Tarantino ilgrimage Song: Bertrandon de la Broquière (200) 200 Todd Tarantino

2 Instrumentation Tenor lute Oboe Clarinet in Bb Trombone Violin Cello Aroximate Duration minutes Conducter's Score in C Quarter Tone Notation µ = 1/ tone shar B = 1/ tone lat  = / tone shar Other Symbols: = a lo sounding multihonic o the layer's choosing = behind the bridge = a shar almost bitten o attack rogram Note In 199, I alked the ilgrimage to Comostela across rance and Sain During these months, I conceived o a series o orks, called "ilgrimage Songs" that could musically enact the slo transormations o the individual that exerience creates Bertrandon de la Broquirère as a minor noble rom Southern rance Little is knon o his lie, though rom his narrative e learn that he held the minor ost o "irst carving squire" at the Burgundian court o hili the Good In ebruary o 12, Bertrandon let Ghent or a ilgrimage to the Holy Land, returning in mid-1 Like many others, beore and since, Bertrandon as not traveling solely or devotion; he as also clandestinely assessing the ossibility o hili's launching a ne crusade Bertrandon's sea ourney to aa as relatively uneventul On his return ourney overland through modern-day Syria and Turkey, Bertrandron as conronted ith many troubles: at the gates o Damascus he as ulled rom a ight over his elt hat ("not the usual costume in those arts"); in Homs, another grou threatened to kill him; in the mountains near Tarsus he took ill In all o these instances, a Mameluke sultan named Mahomet, ho seeing that Bertrandon as alone and could not seak the language, accomanied and cared or him During their time together, Bertrandon learned the ays o his guide: he sat cross-legged, slet on the ground, drank ater ithout ine, and rode his horse ithout stirrus At their arting Bertrandon as moved, and rote: "I am riting this so that eole ill remember that a man not o our aith did many good things or me and he bade me to be very careul, rom no on, o the Saracens hose comany I ket, arning me that they can be as bad as the Euroeans" Among riters o the time, Bertrandon's avorable ortrayal o Muslims as anomalous This comosition is dedicated to the memory o onathan Kramer Text Based on memory and rough notes, I have ritten this account (Beards Horse memory elt hat memory) I as earing a ide elt hat our days One o them hit it and knocked it o my head I raised my ist to hit the man They seem to be mean eole They dry themselves and comb their beards I as cold that night and caught some indecent disease We rode through the mountains or our days ithout seeing any human habitation I as in great danger I ill continue trying A oor man assed by Call the man over Eat ith us I it is not as ell said as others might have, I beg ardon Adated rom Galen Kline, The Voyage d'outremer by Bertrandon de la Broquière Translated, Edited, and Annotated ith an Introduction and Mas (Ne York / Darmstadt 19) 1, 20,,,, 10 or urther Inormation, lease contact: todd@toddtarantinocom

3 oice lute Oboe Clarinet Trombone Violin Cello V q = c 0 10 ilgrimage Song: Bertrandon de la Broquière in memory o onathan Kramer Matter o actly b # # # Todd Tarantino b Based on mem - o - ry and rough notes, I have rit- ten this a-ccount - 10 b π b π b n µ # 10 π # # µ q = c 0 10 π b # b µ Music 200 Todd Tarantino Text rom: Galen Kline, The Voyage d'outremer by Bertrandon de la Broquière Translated, Edited, and Annotated ith an Introduction and Mas (Ne York, 19) --

4 r Con brio # # # b - r # # # # r b # b # # b -- # r # B # # - - b non dim

5 Â V 11 alling into a memory Beards µ b Brillante b b b b # b # Elegante b # # n r n b # b n # Â b r r r # Horse æ b - r # b b # # b µ # b b π -- b me - bend (oss) b n b # b # B # b # b trem æ ord

6 b n m o - ry b # æ æ Solo b b # r # 1 b b b my my hat ide tone increase air ressure bend (oss) B ord b # b n sul ont ord # b # n # n b r -- b b # # # b # - # - - æ r # b # me - mo - r

7 19 # ry b Hesitant # I # b b # b r π r b # as ear - ing b # b b b # -- More assured a b # b # n b b ide elt hat b b b b n b # b b b

8 2 Enlightened # my hat ten b oco ubato lautando : b # roud I # ord # Solo b # b # as ear-ing a # π # n b # n n b r # -- # ide elt hat b Heavy # b b # - b - : - # Brillante # µ trem æ

9 0 - Clumsy b b # # r # n b n # b # Â # # Inard n n b (my elt hat) b b Elegante b b # -9- Again roud π # b b # # b b n our # r b days ear - ing a - b # # b n #

10 oco # ide, elt, hat π b π r istully sul ont b n # π b n b b n # b b n b b b b # b # # -10- b Suddenly b my my ide, # b # b # n b b r n n b # n - # b b # #

11 # elt, hat # # b b b µ # n b nasal b b b  b # n b # B µ b # b ord # b # b # µ n # r # -11- # b b b n # # µ µ B b n # µ b r n b n #  b

12 0 µ # B b µ # # r n B b # µ b # n b # # b # n r n b B b -12- Emotionally b n # # b B ç # One o them hit it and knocked it o µ - - n - b nasal b b # b B ç n n ord b b b b n B ide tone r b b b

13 2 b # n my head I raised my ist to # µ b b b b # b b µ b b n b b µ Â b # n hit the man I raised my ist to b # µ b b # # b b n quasi gliss b # b n b b b n n b, -1- hit hit hit the man, # # B b B Â µ n µ b b # b b #

14 # mean eo - le, b b b b b b # # b n b b n µ n # æ # b b # + noise b # b # they seem to be mean, µ æ b b bend (oss) ord # n b # # # µ n -1- # mean eo - le æ b # # # æ + noise ord b r # b # b # Emotionally # # mean, mean b # # # luttertongue b b b # n # + noise b b b # b

15 # V n eo - le b π b - - b b - # # b b # b n b n bring out harmonic O 9 b # b b b b b O O # b b O B -1- Molto legato With onder and susicion # They dry them - - selves n b b b b n π b b B b B # b b b # n # n b # # B # Elegante b

16 b b and and comb # # # # b # µ b # n # # # n # n their beards # # b, B # B # Intense # # cresc # # Elegante # # b b n # # n # Â Â # r r # -1- # # b Heavy # - - # - - µ b B # # r # I # # # # - # - n - - # # n

17 # as cold # b  # # µ # n n that night µ oco # b  # # n and caught some in - de-cent B # # dis - ease -1- # Solo b # n

18 We rode Heavy b - - µ b b b b b # # b through the mount - ains - b Solo # # # # Solo - # - b - Becoming rantic b # b or our days, our days, our days, days nasal # b # n b b b n # #  # b -1- b n ith - out see - ing ord  b b n b # # b n b

19 # b b n a - ny hu - man ha - bi - ta - tion b  n  µ Mysterious # - b - b - - n - # - # # Mysterious b b sul ont b # b sul ont b # b ord # # b b n # ord # b # -19- µ sul ont # # b b n n b b B B b b ord # b # # b n # b n B

20 2 b I I # b # n b n # B # - b # - # # b # n b b B b b B # b # # b # # n # Introsective Skittish # # # # n # b # # # # # n -20- b I # b n n as in great dan - ger µ b B cresc B B b B # µ b # n

21 B b # µ n b b b n n b - b - B b b cresc b µ b # b b b b # # - - # - # B n B # -21- b # b n B # # # # n b n b n B B # b # #

22 0 ulled back to reality; Matter o actly oco itard I ill r b π b stacc b # n # b - oco itard b # π π A temo b # con - tin π b π A temo sul ont b # ord ue try ing b b b b n n # b n  # b # b # b B b b # -22- B b b

23 V # n A oor man b # # b b B # n b b # n n b b # assed by b # # b b b n b # b n # n B -2- B # # # n b b µ n n - µ - b b # # # n sul tasto b #

24 µ µ Â # # # µ Con brio µ µ µ µ µ b ord µ b b µ b # n # n -2- Hesitant b Call the b r b b b # b man o - ver # b B B µ B n µ n # # n n

25 9 b (My elt b - r # # # - b b izz µ µ - arco µ n hat) - # - - r b b - b - # - - b - - B # µ -2- Skittish # # b # b # - # n b b

26 9 B - Eat ith # b b n # n # # B N B # - us Heavy # - b - b - n # b # n b Con brio µ #

27 100 # µ # n # µ µ  µ µ # n µ µ I it is    µ µ not, not # µ  b b -2- as, as µ # # b #  ell # µ µ

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