Ayana TSUJITA 「ハイドンのおまじない」(2022) https://youtu.be/-zEGtati550
Piano : Tatsuto MASUDA
Video editing : Jun ISHIKAWA

Regarding the technique that has long been used to "replace the spelling of a name with a sound," I have long had some doubts about the relationship between the actual sound that resonates and the letter. I wanted to find my own connection between these two points, and this was the genesis of the idea for this work.

As a different topic, last year I had the opportunity to visit a fashion brand with a witch motif, and I became very interested in the idea of modern witches and the culture associated with witches. There I learned that there is a writing system called "runes," which is closely related to witches.

Runes are letters used in ancient Europe for divination and rituals. Each of them has its own symbolic "color" and "meaning," and you can find runes in various scenes even today, such as combining some of the letters to make an original mark to ward off evil, or replacing your name with a runic character.
When I learned about these uses of letters, I felt that the use of letters as sound name symbols in classical music is also similar to a kind of "spell," and I found my own meaning in the use of sound sequences in which the alphabet is replaced by sounds.

The runes can be adapted to the modern alphabet.
The present work consists of six sections in which the "HAYDN" alphabet string is replaced by "sound strings" and "runes".
Following the opening section, which uses "H-A-D-D-G" as the sound string, the music expresses the symbolic "meaning" and "color" of the corresponding runes when the alphabet is replaced by the runic letters.

A section using a sequence of notes with the symbolic names of the notes at the beginning of the section.
The accentuation of the word "Haydn" when it is uttered, as well as the highs and lows of the accent, etc.
The image is incorporated as an incantation.


Next are the rune letters corresponding to HAYDN and their symbolic meanings and colors.
If we replace "HAYDN" with the runic letters, we get "ᚺᚨᚣᛞᚾ".

    ᚺ Hagar
    Hail, destruction, sudden accident, bright blue
    The sound falls in spots like hail. This section is like sitting still and waiting for the storm to pass.

    ᚨ ansur
    Mouth, communication, dark blue
    It is composed as if the right hand and the left hand are speaking. The left hand gradually stops listening to the right hand.

    ᚣ el.
    Death and rebirth, defense, dark blue
    The piano lid is closed and a passage from Haydn's work is played.

    ᛞ Daeg.
    Beginning and end, dawn, routine, power of light, bright blue
    This section is developed in a routine with motifs using note rows, which is also meant to be a rebirth from the previous section.

    ᚾ niid
    Binding, necessity, patience, black
    A recreation of the beginning of the piece unfolds.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Magic spell of Haydn / ハイドンのおまじない(2022)

辻田絢菜 | Composer | Orchestrator 

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Magic spell of Haydn / ハイドンのおまじない(2022)

Ayana TSUJITA | 辻田絢菜