Romanza, sebuah kisah cinta. Dalam cinta memang
terdapat berbagai rupa kisah. Tak sekedar asmara. Tak sekedar nafsu, juga tak
sekedar kasih yang dalam tatanan kulminasinya seringkali menyisakan absurditas.
Namun apapun formanya, cinta senantiasa menarik dan cinta selalu memiliki
kisahnya sendiri.
Kisah cinta banyak dimanifestasikan manusia. Dari
prosa yang liris sampai puisi cabul yang kering dan menjijikkan. Dari lagu
cinta yang dinyanyikan dengan berteriak-teriak sampai karya masterpiece
komposer legendaris. Juga dari mulai torehan gambar hati, angsa berciuman
hingga ilustrasi persetubuhan yang liar yang panas.
Bagi penggemar musik gitar, ada sebuah romanza yang
tentu telah akrab didengar. Hampir semua pemain gitar klasik di seluruh dunia
memainkannya: “ROMANCE D’AMOUR” - sebuah musik cinta yang abadi. Sebagian
orang mengatakan bahwa komposer Romance de Amor adalah Vincente Gomez. Sebagian lagi menganggapnya adalah anonim, tak
dikenal, dan merupakan sebuah melodi yang folklorik. Apapun itu, yang pasti
Romance De Amor pertama kali dipopulerkan oleh gitaris Narcisso Yepez. Saat itu Yepez memainkan Romance De Amor sebagai
ilustrasi film.
A good repertoire for guitar and piano is rare to find.
This could be an alternative for a great repertoire, for an advanced guitarist and pianist.
About the Fantastic Suite "WETLAND" for Guitar and Piano
This unique ensemble of the piano and guitar aspires to discover new possibilities for its medium.
The theme is about fantasy and
dream, that reflects the nature of wetland from the dawn until the evening with the stars.
Standing in the rain,
standing all afraid,
who knows how to cure all my pain?
I drop these tears because I fear,
even though this rain is trying to make me clear,
for this moment is silent and now I hear,
the pain that managed to last all this year.
You were not there to see my pain.
I will never see love quite the same.
The rain drops to the ground,
like tears from my heart falling without a sound.
My eyes still shine bright,
but I still have this will to fight,
even to this great height.
My Love...
If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again
"RAIN of TEARS"
Sento in seno ch'in pioggia di lagrime
(I feel within a rain of tears)
from: Tieteberga and Il Giustino
by Antonio Vivaldi
Rearr. by Jelia Megawati Heru & Michael Gunadi Widjaja
Kemben becomes the central theme of this composition.
In other words,
it is about the sensuality of woman.
The sensual part, but always
covered.
As a matter of composition, this composition develops an
affection of women sexual charm.
The composition consists of three parts:
• Opening
• Keroncong romance
• Dangdut hot
The opening used the pentatonic. The concept is a “Manunggaling
Kawula Gusti” or “Mandala” - from a small universe evolved into a more
complex conception of the valuable (adiluhung). Theme of primo 1 is
repeated with varied rhythmic, that enriched by secondo 1, primo 2, and
secondo 2. Octave parallels are intended to give the impression of a
theatrical, that: this is a veil of life - women, with their charm of
sexual.
The second part - Keroncong Romance, is about the nature of women.
Timid creatures, spoiled, soft, and gentle. The impression is woman who
wears kemben, walking apace, squinting eyes, a faint smile, and her hair
is slightly damp.
The third part - Hot Dang Dut, describes woman as timid creatures,
spoiled, soft, smooth, but in the sublime way it can be wild in lust and
sexual dreams. That is why in this section is used a "deconstructive"
landscape. Because when she is in lust and wild sexually, there’s no
more norm, no more rules - only a single and static harmony to indicate a
state of "trance" in crisis lust.
In Javanese tradition music
composition, there’s typical this kind of harmony in DOLALAK of
Banyumas, Sintren of Tegal, and Jathilan of Solo. Impressions in this
section are: woman with kemben, seated, with her hands holding the hair,
exposing a hairy armpit as a reflection of the wild lust. Then the
women were swaying in a trance state, covered with fragrant sandalwood,
while the kemben sags.
"JELIA's TWINKLE" (for two pianos, eight hands) by Michael Gunadi Widjaja
The TWINKLE
TWINKLE LITTLE STAR is one of the most famous songs for many decades. Its origin is a lullaby. A Nursery song with the lyric of old English
poem, that created by Jane Taylor.
The melody of this piece is stepping in common interval. So children
can relatively easy to sing out this piece. The harmony structure seems
like giving some kind of “open space” to being explored. This may be one
cause of why the twinkles composed in many different forms of music,
include as a lesson song.
Jelia asked me to make an attractive and unique arrangement for this
twinkle that contains love, passion, and true friendship among her
Suzuki colleagues. So I choose a popular music format for theme
structure with kind of dissonant chordal. It expresses the meaning that
friendship is not always going to be smooth.
In the second movement, I used one of the early Jazz form “RAGTIME” as a manifestation of dynamic relation. In Jazz someone can share the
musical passion to each other in jam session, just like friendship.
In the third movement, there is Dang Dut. Focused on the fact that it
may contain many tradition elements. As if to remind that friendship
never be loose from its cultural root. In the other side, Dang Dut is
sexy, erotic, and passionate.
In other words, this is Jelia’s Twinkle, that has a lot of side – still has the virtuosity in true friendship, but also very passionate and exciting.
I call it a composition, even the theme is not mine. Format: Piano Ensembles - 2 pianos, 8 hands
