Cor de canela
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Cello
- Publisher
- Musica Brasilis (free download; rights held by the composer and licensed to the Instituto Musica Brasilis)
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About this piece
Eduardo Martinelli based this Allegro Vivo on a melody by Agripino, the Pantanal master of the viola de cocho, and dedicated it to the Duo Santoro. Agripino Soares de Magalhães taught young people in Corumbá to build the instrument and died in 2020 at the age of 101. Both cello parts are written in two voices, so each player often carries a tune and an open-string drone at once. Cello 2 drives the dance with rolled four-note chords, a short chromatic episode in tenor clef breaks the G major brightness, and in the quieter passages each player in turn plucks with the left hand while bowing a held note.
Technical overview
G major, 4/4, Allegro Vivo at quarter = 142, with a repeat near the start. Both parts are written in two voices, so the players spend much of the piece on double stops against the open G and D strings, and cello 2 plays long runs of upward-rolled four-note chords. Cello 1 reads tenor clef for a chromatic passage with A-flat, B-flat and E-flat and reaches fourth position on the A string; each part has a passage of left-hand pizzicato over a sustained bowed note, and both end pizzicato.
Technical focus
- Accidentals
- Chords
- Double Stops
- Ensemble Skills
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Left-Hand Pizzicato
- Pizzicato
- Shifting
- Tenor Clef