Un’assoluta e imperturbabile staticità
Lettura e ascolto di Lettera alla madre per shō
abstract
In this article the author recalls his encounter with the shō, a traditional Japanese musical instrument, and the following composition of Lettera alla madre, a piece of music conceived under the aegis of syncretism between East and West, poised between an expanding strophic structure and childhood memories.
Keywords: Music composition and childhood memory • Japanese mouth organ • Lettera alla madre • Synaesthesia • Greek lullaby Κοιμήσου καί παρήγγειλα • Shō