Federico Mompou: Musica Callada IV-VI

IV. Afflitto e penoso


V.


VI. Lento — molto cantabile


Numbers I-III are here.

“Domestic Harmony”

Albumleaf 80: February 7, 2012 (Farmville)


“The Hatchet Polishers”

Albumleaf 79: January 23, 2012 (Farmville)

Though occasionally the four oakumpickers would briefly address some person or persons in the crowd below, yet the six hatchet-polishers neither spoke to others, nor breathed a whisper among themselves, but sat intent upon their task, except at intervals, when . . . two and two they sideways clashed their hatchets together, like cymbals, with a barbarous din.

–Herman Melville, Benito Cereno


“Penny Dreadful”

Albumleaf 78: January 11, 2012 (New York City)


“After Lewin’s Feux d’artifice”

Albumleaf 77: January 5, 2012 (New York City)


“Eleven Machine”

Albumleaf 76: January 3, 2012 (New York City)


There are other machines as well.

“An Intuition”

Albumleaf 75: October 22, 2011 (Farmville)


“Sarabande”

Albumleaf 74: October 12, 2011 (Farmville)


3:29 to 8:21 (18:53)


“Recitativo — quasi secco”

Albumleaf 73: October 2, 2011 (Farmville)

(A homo neanderthalensis weeping)

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