GÁLLÁBARTNIT
a stage work in 8 scenes
Volume 1/2
Britta Byström Score
libretto by: Rawdna Carita Eira
WH32727
ISMN 979-0-66134-058-4
ISBN 978-87-598-3690-3
Gállábartnit
a stage work in 8 scenes
Music: Britta Byström 2015
Libretto: Rawdna Carita Eira 2015
Initiated by Soundstreams; music commissioned by Music i Syd with support from Swedish Arts Council; libretto created with support from Norwegian Sametinget, Kulturrådet, TONO and Tekstforfatterfondet.
Score in C:
Flauto piccolo/flauto grande
Clarinetto piccolo/clarinetto in Bb
Percussione (one player): Vibrafono (with bow), 4 blocchi di legno, 3 logdrums, 1 triangolo, 1 piatto sospeso (with bow, with brushes), 1 cowbell (not tuned), 1 maraccas, swanee whistle.
Pianoforte
Violino (one player)
Viola (one player)
Violoncello (one player)
Áile (soprano)
Guovžža/the bear (tenore)
Narrator
3 dancers
Choir:
Soprano
Alto (with grass-cutting tools as percussion instruments)
Tenore (with bear spears as percussion instruments)
Basso (with bear spears as percussion instruments)
Durata: ca 50 min.
Muitaluvvui duhat jagi áigi. Muitaluvvo odne. Skájaida áiggiid čađa.
The women enter with grass-cutting tools.
The women finish their work and withdraw. Áile is left alone.
The bear is circling around Áile in the shadows. She can´t see him.
The bear appears from the shadows.
molto rit.
Áile is afraid, withdraws from the bear.
The bear approaches Áile little by little.
Áile approaches the bear.
She caresses the bear's fur gently – again and again.
Sii ohcet Àile –diimmuid, beivviid, vahkuid.
The tribe is seeking for Áile.
Eadni/the mother sings the soprano solo
Vibrafono
Sii ohcále su
beivviid, mánuid, jagiid.
Beivviid, mánuid, jagiid jođiiga, eliiga, illudeigga ovttas, Áile ja guovža.
Álggos guovtta, de soai golmmas, soai riggodeigga.
D2
Calmo (lo stesso tempo)
The dance stops. Áile is thoughtful. Calmo (lo
Áile
Sceptical
Welcome scene continues. The sons are dancing.
meno mosso, liberamente
The people come to rest because Áile has returned and brought them her sons.
Nohkan ledje lossa beaivvit, nealgejágit muitun báhcán, guovssonásti badjánan.
Ođđa vuoimmit. Ođđa návccat. Olmmošsohkii ođđa doaivva.
The bear and the two woodwinds come closer, but still sing/play from a distance.
Ritmico q = 100 q = 100
At the same time: men with spears prepare for bear hunting. f use the spear as a percussion instrument Ritmico
The tribe understands that Áile and her sons are leaving.
Eadni/the mother sings the solo part.
The tribe persuades Áile to stay and celebrate her sons.
The men with spears go out to kill the bear.
The men come back with the meat from the
The oldest son finds his grandfather's spear. It is covered in blood.
The son gives the spear to his mother.
Áile recognizes the bear's (her husband's) fur.
Áile tries to kill herself. Her youngest son stops her.
johte ovttaas olmmošsogain. Áile ja gállábártnit.
Beivviid, mánuid, jagiid Oahpahedje. Láidestedje.
Loahpas loktanedje násteálbmái báitit midjiide.
Áile and her sons are placed on the sky like stars.
Britta Byström
GÁLLÁBARTNIT
a stage work in 8 scenes
Volume 2/2
libretto by: Rawdna Carita Eira
Score
WH32727
ISMN 979-0-66134-058-4
ISBN 978-87-598-3690-3