(TEXTURAL) TRANSTEXTUALITY AND HETEROPHONY IN JORGE HORST’S MADRIGALE A GESUALDO

Abstract

This paper sets a path through some aspects of Jorge Horst’s Madrigale a Gesualdo (1988, rev. 1900) to, in the first place, delve into certain particularities of the transtextual procedures employed which bonds this work with Carlo Gesualdo’s “Moro, lasso, al mio duolo” (1611). In this way, texture stands as a weight variable and, in turn, gives rise to a certain degree of ambiguity in which homology and divergence concur. That is, on the one hand, it can be seen a clear intention of adherence to the texture of the madrigal and, on the other, sections are presented in which textures become sound states in Lachenmann’s terms. Furthermore, in this exploration we approach the unformalized proposal of “textural actions” developed by Horst ‒and one of its main components, Francisco Kröpfl’s theoretical works‒ to account for such ambiguity. Summarily, the text focuses on a textural analysis of Madrigale a Gesualdo in order to indicate the relevance of this variable in Horst’s earlier works, both compositional and theoretical, and, therefore, in the becoming of its poetics.