Main menu  Ohana - Signes  Maurice Ohana  Signes (1965)
Duration: 20’   1. L'Arbre dans la nuit  2. L'Arbre animé
d'oiseaux  3. L'Arbre noyé de pluie  4. L'Arbre prisonnier des
fils de la Vierge  5. L'Arbre battu par le vent  6. L'Arbre
brûlé par le soleil    Flute, 2 sitars (in third tones and
chromatic) (1 player), piano and 4 percussions    Written for
Ensemble "Ars Nova"   Michel Debost, flute  Christian Ivaldi,
piano  Monique Rollin, sitars  Jean-Pierre Drouet, Sylvio
Gualda, Boris de Vinogradov e Gaston Sylvestre, percussion.   "
Signes is an assembled suite of pieces for a group of
instruments strongly characterized by their timber, dynamics and
range ... Each piece is attached with a maximum of conciseness
and rigor to a number of melodic and rhythmic figures assembled
according to their affinities or contrasting virtues in pursuit
of a magic sound. Rather than a title, each of these pieces
highlight a value of archetype graphics, a generator of variants
or catalyzing the color of its first element. H