Karawane - Oostenbrug, Wytze

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"In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies of the past that claimed to possess the ultimate truth. The same year as the Manifesto, in 1916, Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," a poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning, however, resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief principle behind Dadaism. Some of his other best known works include the poem collection 7 schizophrene Sonette, the drama Die Nase des Michelangelo, a memoir of the Zürich period Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary, and a biography of Hermann Hesse, entitled Hermann Hesse. Sein Leben und sein Werk (1927). At the end of 2016, the Nieuw Kamerkoor Delft asked me to write an arrangement for choir on this text, which could be performed at a concert in June 2017 around 100 years of De Stijl. Since the beginnings of serial techniques and extra-musical expression emerged in music during the time of DADA, I have based the music on a few rules, which are meaningless in a musical sense, but do establish a relationship with the text. In principle, the melodic line is determined by the vowels; each vowel gets its own characteristic pitch resulting from its properties according to the vowel triangle. The harmonies can also be traced back to the properties of the vowels. See below for further explanation."

⌛ Period → 20th Century ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key F minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Advanced

↕ Range G2 – A-5

♩ Tempo larghetto (60)

◷ Duration ~6 min 27 sec

¶ Language → invented language

Measures 99

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 64727

Editor Wytze Oostenbrug

Posted 2021-06-10

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

C4 – A-5

ALTO

B-3 – D5

TENOR

C3 – A4

BASS

G2 – B3

¶Lyrics / Text

Karawane jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla grossiga m'pfa habla horem éniga goramen higo bloiko russula huju hollaka hollala anlogo bung blago bung blago bung bosso fataka ü üü ü schampa wulla wussa ólobo hej tatta gôrem eschige zunbada wulubu ssubudu uluw ssubudu tumba ba- umf kusagauma ba - umf