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Valeria (Japanese: ヴァレリア) is a 1965 chamber music composition by Tōru Takemitsu, recomposed from an earlier work, "Sonant".
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Overview [link]
Takemitsu wrote the original version of the piece for the sixth modern music festival in Tokyo, for an ensemble comprising violin, cello, guitar, 2 bandneons, and two flutes. In 1969, he revised the work into its present form, retitling it Valeria, for a recording that was produced that year. The two bandneons were replaced by the electric organ, and the two flutes by the two piccolos. The first performance of the new version was held in September, Hiroshi Wakasugi conducting.
Instrumentation [link]
2 Piccolos, Violin, Cello, Guitar, and Electric organ.
Form [link]
The piece is structured in four movements, and lasts approximately six minutes. The second and fourth movements are entitled Recitative I and II respectively.
References [link]
https://wn.com/Valeria_(Takemitsu)
Toru Takemitsu
Toru Takemitsu (武満 徹 Takemitsu Tōru, October 8, 1930 – February 20, 1996) pronounced [takeꜜmitsɯ toːɽɯ] was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu possessed consummate skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is famed for combining elements of oriental and occident philosophy to create a sound uniquely his own, and for fusing opposites together such as sound with silence and tradition with innovation.
He composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. He was also a founding member of the Jikken Kobo (experimental workshop) in Japan, a group of avant-garde artists who distanced themselves from academia and whose collaborative work is often regarded among the most influential of the 20th century.
His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as one of the leading 20th-century Japanese composers. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him.
Valeria
Valeria may refer to:
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Valeria (gens)
The Gens Valeria was a patrician family at Rome, which later included a number of plebeian branches. The Valeria gens was one of the most ancient and most celebrated at Rome; and no other Roman gens was distinguished for so long a period, although a few others, such as the Cornelia gens, produced a greater number of illustrious men. Publius Valerius, afterwards surnamed Poplicola or Publicola, played a distinguished part in the story of the expulsion of the Kings, and was elected consul in the first year of the Republic, BC 509. From this time forward, down to the latest period of the Empire, for nearly a thousand years, the name Valerius occurs more or less frequently in the Fasti, and it was borne by the emperors Maximinus, Maximianus, Maxentius, Diocletian, Constantius, Constantine the Great, and others.
The Valeria gens enjoyed extraordinary honours and privileges at Rome. Their house at the bottom of the Velia was the only one in Rome of which the doors were allowed to open back into the street. In the Circus Maximus a conspicuous place was set apart for them, where a small throne was erected, an honour of which there was no other example among the Romans. They were also allowed to bury their dead within the walls, a privilege which was also granted to some other gentes; and when they had exchanged the older custom of interment for that of burning the corpse, although they did not light the funeral pile on their burying-ground, the bier was set down there, as a symbolical way of preserving their right.
Valeria (1966 telenovela)
Valeria (Valería) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Telesistema Mexicano in 1966. It was directed by Julio Alejandro.
An Argentinian remake of Valería was made in 1986. A Peruvian telenovela Milagros is quite similar to Valería.
Plot
In this telenovela is shown the First Holy Communion of the main character Valería. On the day of her First Communion, Valería witnessed the murder of her father and rape of her mother.
