On "Mareta, mareta, no'm faces plorar" - (2018)   

for piano

 

This Catalan lullaby speaks in its lyric:  "Mareta, mareta, no'm faces plorar, / compra'm la nineta avui qu'es el meu sant." In a variant, "Mareta, mareta / anit vaig somiar / que una nineta / em vares comprar."  A child implores the mother to buy her a doll. Yet the lullaby is sung to a child, such that one might imagine this with a subtext as the mother thinks of her own childhood and her mother. The two scenes would play out together in a veiled, gray nostalgia.

 

 

2 pages, circa 4' 00" - an MP3 demo is here: 

 

The score is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano score.

 

On "Mareta, mareta, no'm faces plorar"