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Las partes son:
- "Port Royal", the city (la ciudad)
- Omen of the earthquake (presagios del seismo)
- The destruction of the city. Earthquake of 1692,
duration 3 min. (la destrucción de la ciudad. Terremoto en 1692,
duración 3 min.)
- Final submersion (sumersión final)
- Prayer for the victims of the catastrophe (plegaria
por las almas de la hecatombe)
- "Port Royal", the new city (la nueva ciudad)
Descriptive poem for band:
Port Royal, a properous harbour town of the
XVII century, situated in the south coast of Jamaica, and notorious for
being the most perverse city in the world due to its close links with
buccaneers and pirates, was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake,
which lasted for three minutes and killed 2000 people on the 7th of June
1692. All that remaine of it was a small cluster of streets aroud the inner
city. All the rest, an area of about seventeen acres, sank into deep waters.
This poem narrates the echo of that event in
a descriptive form, trying to take us back in time to that city in that age.
The composition is divided into various sections which follow the events as
they happened. In this way the duraton of the earthquake is three minutes
approx. The same as the dramatic section describing the death of 2000 people
with an intense realism.
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