Extended Techniques Applied to the horn’s Performance: Technical- Interpretative Challenges in Nautilus pour Cor by Salvador Torré
Horn repertoire. Contemporary music. Music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Extended techniques. Musical performance.
This qualitative research, of a performative nature, which uses bibliographic and experimental objects, proposes to identify the main technical and interpretation challenges of the work Nautilus pour Cor (1986), by the composer Salvador Torré; and to verify what are the possibilities of performance approach for the development of repertoires in this profile, from the point of view of the horn player unfamiliar with the extended techniques used in the horn. The theme therefore, contemplates the development of performing skills involving the use of unconventional and unusual techniques for the production of sounds and timbres, which even though, they are uncommon for the traditional horn language, still are possible and characteristic in this idiom, considering the musical writing and literature for horn from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary twenty-first century.