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Los Titeres de Cachiporra, Tragi-Comedia de Don Cristobal y La Sena Rosita (No

This document provides information on three lyric works by Maurice Ohana: 1) "Le Guignol au Gourdin" is a stage adaptation of a radio work based on a play by Lorca, featuring a soloists, chorus, and orchestra. 2) "Le Mariage sous la Mer" is a chamber opera for young performers based on a text by Camilo José Cela, featuring soloists, narrators, children's chorus, and small orchestra with percussion. 3) "Syllabaire pour Phèdre" is a chamber opera based on Euripides' Hippolytus, featuring 5 solo voices, speaking voices, and a small instrumental ensemble.

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Los Titeres de Cachiporra, Tragi-Comedia de Don Cristobal y La Sena Rosita (No

This document provides information on three lyric works by Maurice Ohana: 1) "Le Guignol au Gourdin" is a stage adaptation of a radio work based on a play by Lorca, featuring a soloists, chorus, and orchestra. 2) "Le Mariage sous la Mer" is a chamber opera for young performers based on a text by Camilo José Cela, featuring soloists, narrators, children's chorus, and small orchestra with percussion. 3) "Syllabaire pour Phèdre" is a chamber opera based on Euripides' Hippolytus, featuring 5 solo voices, speaking voices, and a small instrumental ensemble.

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Lyric works

LE GUIGNOL AU GOURDIN (no. 35 A) Playing time: 1 hr 15’


Stage adaptation by André Belamich of a radio ‘musical illustration’ of the same
title conceived by Maurice Ohana based on the play by Federico García Lorca
Los titeres de Cachiporra, tragi-comedia de Don Cristobal y la sena Rosita (no.
35)
" Forces: soprano, baritone soloists, male chorus (6 voices), orchestra: 1.2.1.1,
0.1.0.0, timpani, percussion (2 performers), piano, harpsichord, strings
3.2.2.2.1
Percussion instruments: xylophone, hammer glockenspiel, tam-tam, 2 suspended
cymbals ( low and high ), military drum, side drum, bass drum, 2 tom-tom ( low,
high ), tambourine, woodblock, castanets.
! Publisher: score held in trust by Billaudot
‘All my lyric and theatre works aim at totally eliminating psychology and having
characters manipulated like marionettes by forces that are beyond them, go
beyond them, and which therefore have multiple meanings. It is up to the
spectator to centre himself on what interests him most in what he is given to see.’

LE MARIAGE SOUS LA MER (no. 50 A) Playing time: 46’


Chamber opera for young performers, after the radio tale Histoire véridique de
Jacotin qui épousa la sirène des océans, adapted by Alain Trutat from a text by
Camilo José Cela, taken from the collection Nuevo retablo de Don Cristobita (no.
50).
" Forces: 5 soloists (soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone, bass), male and female
narrators, children’s chorus, small orchestra 1.1.1.1, 1.1.0.0, percussion (3
performers), cithara in thirds of tones, piano, strings 1.1.1.1
Percussion instruments:
I: xylophone, crotales, 2 temple blocks, maracas, mambo, military drum, side
drum
II: xylophone, maracas, 3 tom-toms, 2 cymbals, tambourine
III: glockenspiel, crotales, triangle, temple block, tambourine, guiro, maracas,
drum, tam-tam, 2 cymbals, bass drum, 2 small struck cymbals; vibraphone for
percussion II and III.
! Publisher: score held in trust by Jobert.
‘In Le Mariage sous la mer, there are rhythms that are borrowed somewhat from
undertows and tides. It is a curious work, a sort of Celtic legend that both shows
the combat between vocation and the easy, conformist life, and poses a rather
harrowing question; to young people: “What will you do with your future, your
vocation?” ; and to their elders: “What did you do with your life?”

SYLLABAIRE POUR PHÈDRE (no. 62) Playing time: approx. 31’


Chamber opera, text by Raphaël Cluzel, based on Hippolytus by Euripides
6 parts: I-Prologue; II-Parodos; III-Episode I; IV-Stasimon; V-Episode II; VI-
Epilogue.
" Forces: 5 solo voices: speaking and singing voice: coloratura soprano,
mezzo-soprano, three speaking voices: the coryphaeus (low voice),
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