Música espectral & piano: les travaux et les jours de tristan murail

Abstract

The motivation for this research came from the author's interest in learning about and preparing for the performance of Spectral Music on the Piano. This is an important and complex compositional strand that emerged in the 1970s in France and became one of the main compositional lines of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thus, through a literature review and an interpretative study of the work Les Travaux et lês Jours I by composer Tristan Murail, we sought to elucidate theoretical and interpretative issues that could help the author, and other interested people, in the initial study of this repertoire. The French composer Tristan Murail was co-founder of the Ensemble L'Itineraire, the main pillar of the emergence of the musical style that would later be called Spectral Music. Keywords: Spectral Music; Piano; Musical Interpretation; Analytical Notes; Tristan Murail.