Composer:
DANGEL, A.
Instrumentation: Quartett
Written for: SATB
Score and parts
The inspiration for this piece came from a newspaper article "With small mushrooms in other spheres". In this country they are called "magic mushrooms", in Mexico they are called "Teonanacatl – divine meat.
The description of each part:
1 - Premezzo I: It concludes with a physiognomic representation of one magic mushroom and the representation of a "mushroom stone"
2 - Premezzo II: The following types of placement are exposed and processed: punctuality, glissandi, suggestions, slaps and cantable melody.
3 - Colors: Individual sounds stand for the colors blue, red, yellow and green
4 - Alienated: “Standing next to yourself” is composed here as a free canon
5 - Hallucinatory: After being “climbed in”, the sentence begins with a misterioso
6 - Dance: The following dances are performed: Saber dance, waltz, tango and polka
7 - Psychotic: Between an increasing, increasing eighth and quarter chain that recurs like a refrain, psychotic states are shown: refrain - fear, grief, shock states - refrain - unpredictability, uncertainty, discomfort, weirdness, concentration disorders - refrain - intoxication - refrain
8 - Alienated: Two folk songs are alienated here, namely "Ein Jäger aus Kurpfalz" and "Ein Männlein steht im Walde".
9 - Ritual: In the fourth section of the sentence the setting of Teonanacatl finally appears. The movement closes with a chaconne and finally with a furious unisono.