news

Sophie Lacaze

12 October 2023

Éditions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Sophie Lacaze has been named Femme de Culture 2023. This event aims to highlight the inspiring and creative voices of French-speaking women […]

Tomás Bordalejo

2 May 2023

Editions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Tomás Bordalejo is the winner of the Fondation des Treilles Music Composition Prize for 2023. Find out more

Aurélien Dumont

27 March 2023

Editions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Aurélien Dumont has won the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs in the Prix des collégiens category for his work Zero Syd Barrett […]

Kryštof Mařatka

23 February 2023

In 2022-23, Kryštof Mařatka is “composer in residence” for the Saison musicale des Invalides with several concerts. The Orchestre de la Garde républicaine will perform his concerto for clarinet and […]

Augustin Braud

17 January 2023

Release of the first monographic CD by composer Augustin Braud, recorded in March 2022 at Studio Sequenza (Montreuil) for the Stradivarius label. by Esemble Alternance.

Benoît Menut

1 July 2022

From 17 July 2022, Benoît Menut will be the guest of honour at the 16th Festival de Plage Musicale in Bangor, with a host of covers and world premieres. Program […]

Aurélien Dumont

28 June 2022

Editions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Aurélien Dumont is the winner of the SACD New Talent Music Prize. A portrait was published on Anaclase Portrait

Tomas Bordalejo

26 May 2022

Éditions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Tomas Bordalejo is the winner of the Prix Symphoniques 2022 Sacem in partnership with France Musique and Maison de la Musique Contemporaine […]

Gabriel Sivak

27 April 2022

Les éditions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to announce that Gabriel Sivak has been appointed as a boarder at Casa Velasquez in Madrid (class of 2022-2023). Selection results

Concert Artchipel #01 April 22 20h salle Colonne – Paris

30 March 2022

To reserve, follow this link reservations Éditions Musicales Artchipel are delighted to present a series of concerts to promote their catalog. The first will take place on Friday April 22 […]

Score
Le Piano Symétrique (volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4)
REIBEL Guy
Type: Score
Instrument: piano, Solos
Special offer 45€ instead of 56€ for the purchase of all 4 volumes.
Read more
Score
Le Piano Symétrique (volumes 1 ,2 & 3)
REIBEL Guy
Type: Score
Instrument: piano, Solos
The piano, a symmetrical body of sound a new look at the instrument The piano is the benchmark instrument for musicians. With its perfect mechanics, exact tuning, melodic and harmonic interplay, the ability to play every conceivable chord, and almost infinite range, it is a perfect instrument, the culmination of hundreds of years of evolution, for which countless works have been written, culminating in the 19th century and a prodigious progression in virtuosity. The instrument has conquered the planet, and is universally used in all musical genres. Its tempered keyboard seems to fix the musical scale forever, bringing music to a kind of “terminus”. What’s more, its keyboard configuration is totally adapted to tonal music, and since the twentieth century, composers have had to trick their way out of tonal language.

I propose an approach in which we strive to forget the glorious history of the piano, its repertoire and all the playing habits that are linked to its habitual practice. A vast program, undertaken with modesty but conviction. Indeed, if we forget everything and look at this instrument like a Martian accidentally landing on Earth, it presents itself as a body of sound offering visual symmetry starting from the center (C – D ), with white keys regularly arranged on both sides, but perfect symmetry in the succession of white and black keys on either side of this center. If, on the other hand, we observe that our two hands placed flat on a table are also symmetrical, with the two thumbs facing each other, the first idea is not to set up a scale with both hands playing in parallel (the left hand linking the sounds starting with the little finger, the right with the thumb), as this way of playing is less spontaneous than playing in mirror, with both hands using the same fingering. If you apply this symmetrical playing style to both hands, the playing is much more natural and easier for a beginner, and produces musical results that may be disconcerting at first, but are astonishingly rich, eliminating the many clichés, and discover a wide variety of melodic and harmonic modes developed in contemporary music since Debussy and Messiaen, in particular the chromatic mode, the tonal scale, mode 2, the acoustic mode and all the more well-known plainchant modes (D, E, F, G, A). The door is open to new adventures with very direct access. This is the experiment conducted at the École de Musique de Colomiers with Marc Jamond, Director, teachers Catherine Gérin, Pascale Monteil, Ruth Atienza Platon and their students, to whom this series of notebooks is dedicated.
Guy Reibel
Read more

Our Composers