| ID | 4024B115-C080-4BBD-900F-3406E0C3433F |
|---|
| Titlecode | R01394 |
|---|
| Title Name | Tituli for Five Voices, Violin and Two Percussion |
|---|
| Marketing Copy | Texts from inscriptions dating back to pre-Imperial Roman times representing different facets of daily life in ancient Italy in the period between 600 and 100 BCE. |
|---|
| Instrumentation | Countertenor, 3 Tenors, Baritone, Violin and 2 Percussionists (Marimba, 3 Suspended Cymbals, 2 Wood Blocks, 2 Small Shakers, Medium Shaker, 2 Cup Bells) |
|---|
| Commission | (not set) |
|---|
| Dedication | (not set) |
|---|
| Program Notes | Titulus -- tituli in the plural -- is the Latin word for an inscription or a notice. All the texts set in this work are inscriptions, either carved in stone or scratched on metal, from pre-Imperial Roman times. Thus they are not literary texts but rather represent different facets of daily life in ancient Italy in the period between 600 and 100 BCE. The first two movements set the two oldest known Latin texts, first the Lapis niger, a fragment of sacred law, followed by an offering inscribed on the bottom of a three-legged pot. Both these texts are in fact so ancient that they cannot be translated with any accuracy. The third and fourth texts are more formal: the Columna rostrata, taken from a triumphal monument celebrating the first major Roman victory in the First Punic War, and an epitaph from the grave of a small boy named Optatus (meaning 'the desired one'). A bi-lingual shop-sign from Palermo in slightly garbled Latin and Greek provides the text for the fifth movement: "Inscriptions arranged and engraved here for holy temples by public labors through we (sic)." The final two movements involve compilations of many quite short texts. Sortes is a collection of oracular texts, most of them scratched on metal foil or on rods that were used for fortune-telling. The last movement, Instrumenta, sets inscriptions from personal belongings. The first three texts are in Etruscan with the remainder in Latin, and each has either the name of the owner or of the person who presented the object as a gift. |
|---|
| Title Brand | 2 |
|---|
| Year Composed | 1999 |
|---|
| Copyright Number | (not set) |
|---|
| Copyright Year | (not set) |
|---|
| Duration | 45 |
|---|
| Ensemble Size | 8 |
|---|
| Date Created | 2010-03-15 20:31:42.000000 |
|---|
| Date Updated | 2025-09-30 20:31:42 |
|---|
| Inhouse Note | (not set) |
|---|
| Bsc Code | (not set) |
|---|
| Text Author | texts from Anonymous inscriptions 7th-1st Century BCE |
|---|
| Premier Performance Memo | (not set) |
|---|
| Recording Credits | Recorded by The Hilliard Ensemble, ECM (2003). |
|---|
| Review | (not set) |
|---|
| Awards | (not set) |
|---|
| Title Category | 12 |
|---|
| Title Movements | (not set) |
|---|
| Title Grade | (not set) |
|---|
| Set Series ID | (not set) |
|---|
| Title Instrument Category Text | Vocal Ensemble |
|---|
| Title Sub Category Text | (not set) |
|---|
| Title Sub Category | 17 |
|---|
| Title Instrument Header | 80 |
|---|
| Title Grade Text | (not set) |
|---|
| Clean Url | tituli-for-five-voices-violin-and-two-percussion-r01394 |
|---|