{"id":19381,"date":"2012-03-09T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T10:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/?p=19381"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:53:24","slug":"tenebrae-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/tenebrae-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"TENEBRAE (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saxophone quartet: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duration: 09:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the Holy Week Responsory by Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria <em>Tenebrae factae sunt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere: 12 July 2012. 16th World Saxophone Congress. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Performers: Sigma Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commissioned by: Sigma Project\/INAEM&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dedicated: <em>a Sigma Project<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trito.es\/es\/tienda\/articulo\/21271\/tenebrae\">Publisher: <em>Trit\u00f3 Edicions<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jY0X15If-T4\">Torres Composer YouTube Channel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Piece for four saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor and baritone), commissioned by the Sigma Project ensemble in 2012, with a duration of 10 minutes. The starting material is the Responsory from the Holy Week Office by Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria. <em>Tenebrae factae sunt<\/em>. The text refers to the final moments of Jesus Christ on the cross, with his intense final words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Tenebrae factae sunt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tenebrae factae sunt,<br>dum crucifixissent lesum Iudaei:<br>et circa horam nonam exclamavit Iesus voce magna:<br>Deus meus, ut quid me dereliquisti?<br>Et inclinato capite, emisit spiritum.<br>Exclamans Iesus voce magna ait:<br>Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.<br>Et inclinato capite, emisit spiritum.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Matth. 27, 45-46; Lc. 23, 46)<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expressed by Victoria through extremely spiritual and mystical music, in an austere discourse\u2014only apparently so\u2014for four voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My work is structured in eight sections, from which each of the verses of the responsory emerges, and develops multiple reworkings of the polyphonic material, making use of the numerous resources of the saxophone quartet, and particularly the rich array of multiphonics found in <em>pianissimo<\/em> which envelops the outer sections of the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J. T. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-gray-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en\/catalogo\/\">Back to the catalogue<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuarteto de saxofones: soprano, alto, tenor, bar\u00edtono&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Duraci\u00f3n: 09:00 Sobre el Responsorio de Semana Santa de Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria Tenebrae factae sunt Estreno: 12\/07\/2012. XVI Congreso Mundial de Saxof\u00f3n. Universidad St. Andrews, Escocia. Int\u00e9rpretes: Sigma Project Encargo: Sigma Project\/INAEM&nbsp; Dedicatoria: a Sigma Project Editorial: Trit\u00f3 Edicions Canal de YouTube Torres Composer Pieza para cuatro&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catalogo","category-cuatro-instrumentos","category-117","category-140","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19381"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21207,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19381\/revisions\/21207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesustorres.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}