HOPI for bassoon solo, by French composer Philippe Hersant (1948), is a tribute to the Hopi Indians, who live in the state of Arizona.
The composer has borrowed the motif of one of their songs, a little distorted by the time, as the author states, and repeats it with slight variations in the high register of the bassoon. It could conjure up the image of a circle that tears itself over and over again, Hersant suggests.
In the lower register of the instrument, on the other hand, slightly terrifying multiphonic sounds are created.
The composition dates from 1985 and is dedicated to Alexandre Ouzounoff who edited the first draft; the final version was written in 1994 by Pascal Gallois.
I share a poem of mine inspired by the piece:
In a circle around the fire
crackles the night in flaming stars.
From the churning ashes rises a song of smoke
the echo shimmers among the silent stars.
Black burns its fear
and red warms the heart.
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