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Musica Ficta
de Buenos Aires is devoted to the study and diffusion of
the European Medieval and Renaissance music, and of the Latin
American Colonial period. Born in 1975, since then they
have
performed
in the most important
theaters of Argentina and abroad.
In Buenos Aires City: Colón
Theatre, General San Martín Theatre, Auditorium of Belgrano,
Cervantes National Theater, Larreta Museum, Fernandez Blanco
Museum, General San Martín Cultural Center, City of
Buenos Aires Cultural Center, among others.
In the
Provinces:
Mitre Theater (Jujuy) House of the Culture (Salta), Auditorium
Theater (Mar del Plata), Cathedral (Bariloche), Independencia
Theater (Mendoza), Santo Domingo Convent (La Rioja), Primero
de Mayo Municipal Theater (Santa Fe), El Circulo Theater
(Rosario), Municipal Theater (Bahia Blanca), Provincial Direction
of culture (Posadas), General San Martín Theater (Cordoba),
House of Culture (Gral. Roca), San Martín Theater
(Tucumán)
Abroad: Conciergerie
(Paris, France), House of Rubens (Amberes, Belgium), Partita
a Scacchi (Maróstica, Italy), Superior School of Music
(Colonia, Federal Germany), Boymans Museum (Rotterdam, Holland),
Schloss Tarasp (Swiss), Aranzazu Church (Guadalajara, Mexico),
Guaira Theater (Curitiba, Brazil), Argentine House (Rome, Italy),
Claustro of the Jacobinos (Toulouse, France), Rittersaal DES
Deutschordenhauses (Frankfurt, Federal Germany), Pepijn Theater
(La Hayat, Holland), Eglise St. Maurice (Chinon, France), Schloss
Homburg (Numbrecht; Federal Germany)
For its participation
in the "Partita
to Scacchi", Musica Ficta has received a special prize
granted by the city of Maróstica (Italy)
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From left to right:
Pablo Ravachini, Moira
Santa Ana, Laura Wright,
Carlos Diener, Miguel de Olaso,
Rubén
Soifer
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The group has participated
in numerous Radio and Television auditions : diverse National
and Municipal Radio programs (Buenos Aires, Argentina), ATC,
Channel 2 (La Plata), "Cultural Mail" (Paris, France),
short for the West Deutsches Rundfunk (WDR, Federal Germany),
short for Lowe (Buenos Aires, Argentina), "Partita to
Scacchi" for Italian radio and Television (RAI, Italy), "Musical
Week in Buenos Aires" for the WDR (Federal Germany)
It is to emphasize the educational
activity of Musica Ficta, implemented through
courses and didactic chats, like the dictation in III "Early
Music Meeting" (Curitiba, Brazil) |
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|  Música
Ficta in Borges Cultural Centre - La Nación,
2/6/02 (click)
14/may/02.
Excellent critics from El Litorial newspaper about the performing
of Música
Ficta (click)
22/jul/01.
La Nacion newspaper dedicates a complete page for Musica Ficta (click) |
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In their performance, Musica
Ficta uses
Period costumes, to help to create the right atmosphere to the
music performed. The designs of the costumes were taken of engravings
and miniatures preserved till today. The instruments that plays
the group are replicas of the originals ones, all of them ancestors
of the modern instruments: Medieval and Renaissance Recorders,
Crumhorns, Shawms, Renaissance transverse flutes, Cornetto,
Lute, Ud,
Moorish
guitar,
Vielle
, Rebec, Medieval and Renaissance drums, Derbake, Nakir and
many other percussion instruments.
The costumes as well as the instruments
observe the originals, the tongues in which the songs are sang
too. That is why they are transferred with a previous explanation,
and they use dramatic resources for their comprehension.
With the same pleasant and didactic aim, Musica
Ficta interpolate
between the Works that integrate the show, texts and poems from
that time, full of humour and poetic power. Costumes, instruments,
languages, texts, humour, all this is combined so that a Musica
Ficta's presentation exceeds the frame of a mere concert and
becomes an epoch live fresh. The European Medieval and Renaissance,
together with the Latin-American music of the XVII and XVIII
centuries, mix to place colourful scenes, inviting the spectator
to introduce himself in a Word far away in time, but near in
expression and sensibility.
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A different show for children
Música Ficta, with songs
and instruments from another time
Opens "The band of King Arthur",
in the Theatre del Globo
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Ficta specializes in Works from the Middle Age and the
Renaissance |
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Regularly,
the group Works for an adult public
But
his members has discovered the interest of the children
during their concerts and prepared a show for them
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The child publicity
board presents in this season some proposals that are not usual.
One of them is "The
band of King Arthur", by the group Música Ficta, that
on Sundays, at 15.30 and 17.30, offers in the theatre del Globo.
Although Música Ficta was used to work for an adult audience,
this year they decided to give life to an idea that they have been
elaborating for ten years and that is backed with a very special
experience. “In our habitual concerts- says Pablo Ravachini (voice
and percussion)-, the parents are usually joined by their children
and we discover that they enjoy it. They are amazed, they show
admiration for what we do. So we looked for inside our repertory
for those songs that had a hook, a special situation that allows
us to relate with the children, creating at the same time our own
situation for the communication up in the stage.”
Música Ficta (integrated by Rubén
Soifer, Carlos Diener, Miguel de Olaso, Pablo Ravachini, Moira
Santa Ana and Laura Wright), for 26 years, they have been presenting
their show in different stages of our country and in foreign
countries and they have the peculiarity of offering a music repertory
from the Medieval, the European Renaissance and the Latin-American
Colonial period.
They use replicas of original instruments, ancestors of the modern
instruments, and they wear clothes according to the age they are
working on. Their shows turn out to be very didactic, because they
talk about the aspects that are related to the presentations they
are performing, providing a very important reference to the spectator.
The director, Rubén Soifer, explains that beyond their
pleasure of working with the Medieval and the Renaissance art,
they find something fundamental to transmit to the children. "Although
we are including lots of years – he explains-, the preindustrial
period, the preiluminist, presents some very particular characteristics
about the way people were related with music and, of course with
the world. It was all in a human scale, so much that, for example,
the string instruments had gut strings, not steel's, nor even nailon.
And this is strongly reflected by music.”
The chosen songs are, in every cases, customs
and they talk about love, courtesy, the arrival of the Spring,
and there is even a theme interpolated, "La tonada del conejo",
that shows some Latin-American colonial costumes.
Singing, dancing, applauding
Although Música Ficta usually integrate the stalls in their
proposals, in this case that demand is more developed. “Kids can
sing, dance, applaud or tap –Ravachini says. There is a constant
come and go. We add small ingredients to the set. Our clothes reproduce
the original wardrobe, resides there are instruments that facinate
children. The cromorno, for example, sounds like a duck. In a specific
moment of the show we also teach the first canon that was written
in the history of music and we sing it with the audience.”
"We take advantage of certain peculiarities of our work in
an attempt to call the children's attention and of showing, at
the same time, an aspect of the evolution of music – Soifer defines.
Coming back to the cromorno, it is similar to a stick or an umbrella
and it sounds like an oboe or a duck, and this allows us to show
new sounds. A great rhythmic and timbre appears all the time. If
we add this to the dramatizations, the dances, the reading of texts,
we complete a flashy historical background.”
The intention, to summarize, is to revitalize an epoch. They have
fun doing it, because they end up amazing the audience.
Carlos Pacheco
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/07/22/ds_321690.asp
LA NACION | 22/07/2001 | Página 5 | Espectáculos
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