PT Journal
AU Prifti, E
TI Planetears: Climate, Problems of Our Time, Future Threats
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2015
BP 87
EP 111
VL 21
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2015.006
DE Aleksander Peci; global warming; compositional logo; Albanian music elements; double Lacrimoso
AB Aleksander Peci (born 1951) is at the moment one of the most active and successful Albanian composers living in Albania. His music language is very specific and well appreciated in the international music scene. Lately Peci developed a compositional logo named Polygravite CC2. Planetears is a composition where he uses for the first time his compositional logo, along with other music elements such as an Oi-interval originating in the Albanian folklore, or the Double Lacrimosa which is a combination of the cadence of Mozart's Lacrimosa and the seventh interval from the Albanian lament. The name Planetears is made of two words planet and tears. The inspiration came from a speech by the U. S. president Barack Obama at the 2009 summit on global warming, and also from a poem by Al Gore about climate change and its effect on our planet. Every music element used expresses a specific non-music content and it is carefully chosen by the author. The analysis highlights the main music elements and techniques, and their effect on the piece. The climate problem is expressed by a combination of Albanian music elements (from the Albanian lament), western music (W. A. Mozart) and Peci's original techniques (Polygravite CC2).
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