J. I. Blesa Lull
Composer & Conductor

There is no Song for Singing

Opus: 50

Grade: 3

Duration: 7'

Portada de la obra There is no Song for Singing Purchase Music

This music was composed after a petition of Mario Komazin, to be premiered by the band he conducts, the Gradski Puhački Orkestar Križevci (Croatia). The motivic material of the piece, has been taken from the interesting folk music of the region, specifically from two songs titled I Ovo Se Klajna Zeleni Juraj, Kirales (Here, Green George is Bowing) and Nema Pisme Nit Pivanja (There is no song for singing). Since both are sung in a responsorial way, that inspired me to start the piece with a sort of “procession” with two groups walking towards the stage. These groups, dialogue with their own soloists and the rest of the band which is waiting on the stage, imaging somehow the original song. The rest of the piece is a continuous variation of the melodies we heard on this very beginning of the music.