Colette Mourey (born 1954) is a French classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist and composer.
Biography
Born in Kenitra (Morocco), Mourey studied musicology at the Sorbonne under Edith Weber and passed the agrégation. First a classical guitarist and student of Uruguayan guitarist Oscar Cacères, she is also a pianist.
As a teacher, she teaches writing, aesthetics and music didactics at the Université de Franche-Comté and the . She is also involved with the "Passeurs d'Art" association for the creation of free children's orchestras.
For her research, she starts from works on the atonal music of her teacher Julien Falk to develop a new musical system called "hypertonality". This is based on spiral scales (in amplitudes higher than the octave), radically transforming atonal counterpoint techniques. This allows the reintroduction of "natural consonances" within a contemporary language, which contributes to bringing contemporary music closer to the "general public".
She is the author of numerous books on musicology and teaching.
As a composer, she is the author of more than 1000 works (published at the éditions Bergmann, Reift Marcophon, Soldano, Delatour, and Profs editions. In 2012, she won the First Prize of the International Competition for Instrumentalists and Composers "Music and Earth" in Sofia (Bulgaria). From 2012 to 2014, she has been awarded by the IBLA Foundation for her works Estudios Festivos; Homenaje a Manuel Ponce (guitar) in 2012, Variations In Memoriam (guitar) in 2013, and Bucoliques (harpsichord) in 2014
Publications
Research books
- 2011: ÃÂléments de composition hypertonale (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2016: Synergies - de l'espace musical àl'espace urbain (ÃÂditions LâÂÂHarmattan)
- 2016: Essai sur le son mental : de résonner⦠àraisonner (ÃÂditions LâÂÂHarmattan)
- 2016: Résonance (ÃÂditions Edilivre)
- 2016: L'intelligence musicale (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2017: Petit Précis d'Agriculture Symbiotique
Teaching books
- 2012: Du contrepoint au contrepoint atonal (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2013: Comment écouter une Ã
Âuvre musicale (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2014: Introduction au contrepoint (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2014: Vous avez dit baroque (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2014: Vers une approche de l'objet musical et de sa médiation (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2014: Introduction ÃÂ l'harmonie et ÃÂ l'orchestration tonales (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2015: Vers une approche des écrits musicaux (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2015: Vous avez dit classique (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2017: Approche chromatique de l'enseignement pianistique (ÃÂditions Delatour)
Novels
- 2016: Himaya (ÃÂditions Mémogrames)
- 2016: Dieu est ÃÂ la caisse (ÃÂditions du Menhir)
- 2017: Hélène (ÃÂditions Collections de Mémoire)
- 2017: Les terres promises (Editions Balland)
- 2017: L'Ombre des ÃÂmes (PGCOM Editions)
- 2017: Les Terres Nourricières (PGCOM Editions)
- 2017: Et la lumière fut ! (PGCOM Editions)
- 2018: "Entrechats" (ÃÂditions Maia)
Scores series (partial list)
- 2013: 12 partitas hypertonales (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2014: Sad o'clock soul dance (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2015: 2 ariettes (Profs Editions)
- 2015: World concerto (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2015: Chanson de la rose des voix (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2016: Piano-merveilles (ÃÂditions Delatour)
- 2016: Avant l'aube (ÃÂditions Bergmann)
- 2016: Little Tom thumb rag (ÃÂditions Soldano)
- 2016: Mon piano part en vacances (ÃÂditions Delatour)
- 2016: Piano Blues (ÃÂditions Delatour)
- 2016: Au chant des saisons (ÃÂditions Delatour)
- 2016: Mouvances, pour Tuba solo (ÃÂditions Chanteloup)
- 2018: Cantate "Les Droits de l'Homme" (ÃÂditions La Fabrik'ÃÂ Notes)
- 2018: 12 Petits Préludes Hypertonaux (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2018: Quasi Sonata (ÃÂditions Soldano)
- 2018: 4 Estudios Festivos (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
- 2018: Bagatelle (ÃÂditions Bergmann)
- 2018: Quetzalcoatl Concerto (ÃÂditions Marc Reift)
Works performed
<small>The list below is not exhaustive</small>
- Invitation for bass clarinet and guitar played by Sauro Berti, bass clarinet of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Leonardo De Marchi.
- Abacus for solo guitar played by Patrick Ruby.
- Fumée (based on poem by Théophile Gautier) for soprano and guitar, performed by Alice Fagard and Clothilde Bernard.
- Chanson de la rose des voix and Les quatre chansons spiraliques (based on texts by Michel Butor).
- Un conte de Noël for 4-handed harpsichord
- Variations in Memoriam for guitar composed for Marcelo de la Puebla.
- Sonata Appassionata for guitar in homage to Petar ÃÂuliÃÂ.
- Eaux-fortes for piano composed for Konstantin Lifschitz.
- Mers et Monts, Jean Sébastien Bach by François Henry, Alice Fagard, Hélène Ruggeri, Clotilde Bernard.
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