SPECIAL ORDER EDITION Kaija Saariaho Dolce Tormento For Solo PiccoloKaija Saariaho Dolce Tormento for solo piccolo Chester MusicCanzioniere 132 S'amor non é, che dunque @ quel ch’io sento? Ma s'egli é amor, per Dio, che cosa e quale? Se bona, ond’é I'effetto aspro mortale? Se ria, ond’é si dolce ogni tormento? S'a mia voglia ardo, ond’é 'l pianto e lamento? S'a mal mio grado, il lamentar che vale? © viva morte, o dilettoso male, come puoi tanto in me, s'io no ‘I consento? E s'io ‘I consento, a gran torto mi doglio. Fra si contrari venti in frale barca mi trovo in alto mar, senza governo, si lieve di saver, d’error si carca ch’i' medesmo non so quel ch’io mi voglio, e tremo a mezza state, ardendo il verno. Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Canticus Troili (Middle English) Ifno love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? Iflove be good, from whennes cometh my woe? Ifit be wikke, a wonder thynketh me, ‘When every torment and adversite That cometh of hym may to me savory thinke, For ay thurst I, the more that ich it drynke. And if that at myn owen lust I brenne, From whennes cometh my waillynge and my pleynte? Ifharm agree me, wherto pleyne I thenne? Inoot, ne whi unwary that I feynte. O quike deth, O sweete harm so queynte, How may of the in me swich quantite, But if that I consente that it be? And if that I consente, I wrongfully Complyne, iwis. Thus possed to and fro, Alsterelees withinne a boot am I Amydde the see, bitwixen wyndes two, That in contrarie stonden evere mo. Alas, what is this wondre maladie? For hote of cold, for cold of hote, I dye. translation by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)Performance Notes ° breath tone: use the fingering needed to produce the marked pitch, however, do not produce the normal tone but just blow air through the instrument. . normal tone ——> change very gradually from one sound or one way of playing to another 4 multiphone One characteristic of this piece is an unstable playing between octaves, with the desired sound vacillating freely between the octaves with fragile expression. The notation for this is: g_meaning ge £ = The text should always be recited between whispering and sotto voce, in such a way that the given pitch resonates either as air or tone. Dolce Tormento was written for Camilla Hoitenga, who gave the world premiére at the Finnish Institute, Paris, on 1 September 2004. Duration: c. 6 minutes‘for Camilla on September 29th, 2004 DOLCE TORMENTO Kaija Saariaho ‘Sempre dolce, espressivo, libero o to vib rte > — —— *ss_ s'amor non é, che dunque & quel ch’ios- —_sento? sewza vib, —+ moo vib. eo senaavie 5 fe —— 7 po a = a fe ep. —— ——* Bt tye —— + io s- sento SS = é . oli siete ffeerteie. 7 ond’é si dolce ogni tormento? ‘sce performance notes © Copyright 2006 Chester Music Lid.~ tremo a mezza state, ardendo il vemo saife—— tn che dunque & quel o_whistle-tone = fit teeter t a ch’io sento? molto vibr 4 2. P silieve dis- saver, a error si carca Pid agitato —— ——. ~<—— = we # —— + SF > whistle-tone s-si dolce ogni tormentorit, oe ee => rit. f phe , We te tp te te te te —— ee 0 tat — — ssi dolee ‘molto vibe. to ———=