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Tersicorei (2023)

For alto Sax and Electronics

Commission: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Artistic direction: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Première: Teatro Studio Borgna, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (ITA) - September 24, 2023

Performers: Giovanni De Luca (sax)

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Program notes:

Tersicore is one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology and the patroness of dance.
Her name comes from the ancient Greek térpo (to give pleasure, to rejoice) and chorós (dance).
From Thersicore comes the word tersicorèo, 'associated with dance'.
Two instruments, the saxophone and electronics, dance and float in symbiosis; two bodies that move, entwine and intertwine, as if from one the other was born. 
An acoustic sound that comes from an electronic sound created by recorded sounds of the baritone saxophone.

Two different bodies coming together to create a single body made of the same material.
A breath, a dance, that follows the course of a wave; a wave that comes to break and crumble into many small fragments.

© 2025 Maria Vittoria Agresti-Composer

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