Colette Mourey (born 1954) is a French
classical guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...
ist, music educator,
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
and composer.
Biography
Born in
Kenitra
Kenitra ( ar, القُنَيْطَرَة, , , ; ber, ⵇⵏⵉⵟⵔⴰ, Qniṭra; french: Kénitra) is a city in north western Morocco, formerly known as Port Lyautey from 1932 to 1956. It is a port on the Sebou River, Sebou river, has a popul ...
(Marocco), Mourey studied musicology at the Sorbonne under Edith Weber and passed the
agrégation
In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...
. 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
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
(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: ''Éléments de composition hypertonale'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2016: ''Synergies - de l'espace musical à l'espace urbain'' (Éditions L’Harmattan)
* 2016: ''Essai sur le son mental : de résonner… à raisonner'' (Éditions
L’Harmattan
Éditions L'Harmattan, usually known simply as L'Harmattan (), is one of the largest French book publishers. It specialises in non-fiction books with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. It is named after the Harmattan, a trade wind in W ...
)
* 2016: ''Résonance'' (Éditions Edilivre)
* 2016: ''L'intelligence musicale'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2017: ''Petit Précis d'Agriculture Symbiotique''
Teaching books
* 2012: ''Du contrepoint au contrepoint atonal'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2013: ''Comment écouter une œuvre musicale'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2014: ''Introduction au contrepoint'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2014: ''Vous avez dit baroque'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2014: ''Vers une approche de l'objet musical et de sa médiation'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2014: ''Introduction à l'harmonie et à l'orchestration tonales'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2015: ''Vers une approche des écrits musicaux'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2015: ''Vous avez dit classique'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2017: ''Approche chromatique de l'enseignement pianistique'' (Éditions Delatour)
Novels
* 2016: ''Himaya'' (Éditions Mémogrames)
* 2016: ''Dieu est à la caisse'' (Éditions du Menhir)
* 2017: ''Hélène'' (Éditions Collections de Mémoire)
* 2017: ''Les terres promises'' (Editions Balland)
* 2017: ''L'Ombre des Âmes'' (PGCOM Editions)
* 2017: ''Les Terres Nourricières'' (PGCOM Editions)
* 2017: ''Et la lumière fut !'' (PGCOM Editions)
* 2018: ''"Entrechats"'' (Éditions Maia)
Scores series (partial list)
* 2013: ''12 partitas hypertonales'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2014: ''Sad o'clock soul dance'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2015: ''2 ariettes'' (Profs Editions)
* 2015: ''World concerto'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2015: ''Chanson de la rose des voix'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2016: ''Piano-merveilles'' (Éditions Delatour)
* 2016: ''Avant l'aube'' (Éditions Bergmann)
* 2016: ''Little Tom thumb rag'' (Éditions Soldano)
* 2016: ''Mon piano part en vacances'' (Éditions Delatour)
* 2016: ''Piano Blues'' (Éditions Delatour)
* 2016: ''Au chant des saisons'' (Éditions Delatour)
* 2016: ''Mouvances'', pour Tuba solo (Éditions Chanteloup)
* 2018: ''Cantate "Les Droits de l'Homme"'' (Éditions La Fabrik'à Notes)
* 2018: ''12 Petits Préludes Hypertonaux'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2018: ''Quasi Sonata'' (Éditions Soldano)
* 2018: ''4 Estudios Festivos'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
* 2018: ''Bagatelle'' (Éditions Bergmann)
* 2018: ''Quetzalcoatl Concerto'' (Éditions Marc Reift)
Works performed
The list below is not exhaustive
* ''Invitation'' for bass clarinet and guitar played by Sauro Berti, bass clarinet of the
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera House) is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat ''Costanzi Theatre'', it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements. The pre ...
and Leonardo De Marchi.
* ''Abacus'' for solo guitar played by Patrick Ruby.
* ''Fumée'' (based on poem by
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rem ...
) 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
Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator.
Life and work
Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven childre ...
).
* ''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 Čulić Petar Čulić (born June 26, 1986 in Split, Croatia) is a classical guitarist.
He finished his master's degree at the Split music Academy in the class of prof. Goran Listeš, and continued to study at the Koblenz Guitar Academy with Hubert Käppel ...
.
* ''Eaux-fortes'' for piano composed for
Konstantin Lifschitz.
* ''Mers et Monts'', ''Jean Sébastien Bach'' by François Henry, Alice Fagard, Hélène Ruggeri, Clotilde Bernard.
Cathédrale Sainte Croix des Arméniens
/ref>
References
External links
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mourey, Colette
1954 births
Living people
People from Kenitra
20th-century classical composers
20th-century French composers
20th-century guitarists
Composers for the classical guitar
Women classical composers
French classical guitarists
French women guitarists
Women classical guitarists
20th-century French women musicians
20th-century French women writers
20th-century French musicologists
21st-century classical composers
21st-century French composers
21st-century guitarists
21st-century French women musicians
21st-century French women writers
21st-century French musicologists
French women musicologists
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers
20th-century women guitarists
21st-century women guitarists