Colette Mourey

Colette Mourey is a French classical guitarist, music educator, musicologist and composer.

Biography

Born in Kenitra, 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, 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. From 2012 to 2014, she has been awarded by the IBLA Foundation for her works Estudios Festivos; Homenaje a Manuel Ponce in 2012, Variations In Memoriam in 2013, and Bucoliques in 2014

Publications

Research books

2011: Éléments de composition hypertonale
2016: Synergies - de l'espace musical à l'espace urbain
2016: Essai sur le son mental : de résonner… à raisonner
2016: Résonance
2016: L'intelligence musicale
2017: Petit Précis d'Agriculture Symbiotique

Teaching books

2012: Du contrepoint au contrepoint atonal
2013: Comment écouter une œuvre musicale
2014: Introduction au contrepoint
2014: Vous avez dit baroque
2014: Vers une approche de l'objet musical et de sa médiation
2014: Introduction à l'harmonie et à l'orchestration tonales
2015: Vers une approche des écrits musicaux
2015: Vous avez dit classique
2017: Approche chromatique de l'enseignement pianistique

Novels

2016: Himaya
2016: Dieu est à la caisse
2017: Hélène
2017: Les terres promises
2017: L'Ombre des Âmes
2017: Les Terres Nourricières
2017: Et la lumière fut !
2018: "Entrechats"

Scores series

2013: 12 partitas hypertonales
2014: Sad o'clock soul dance
2015: 2 ariettes
2015: World concerto
2015: Chanson de la rose des voix
2016: Piano-merveilles
2016: Avant l'aube
2016: Little Tom thumb rag
2016: Mon piano part en vacances
2016: Piano Blues
2016: Au chant des saisons
2016: Mouvances, pour Tuba solo
2018: Cantate "Les Droits de l'Homme"
2018: 12 Petits Préludes Hypertonaux
2018: Quasi Sonata
2018: 4 Estudios Festivos
2018: Bagatelle
2018: ''Quetzalcoatl Concerto''

Works performed

The list below is not exhaustiveInvitation 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 for soprano and guitar, performed by Alice Fagard and Clothilde Bernard.Chanson de la rose des voix and Les quatre chansons spiraliques.Un conte de Noël for 4-handed harpsichordVariations in Memoriam for guitar composed for Marcelo de la Puebla.Sonata Appassionata for guitar in homage to Petar Čulić.Eaux-fortes for piano composed for Konstantin Lifschitz.Mers et Monts, Jean Sébastien Bach by François Henry, Alice Fagard, Hélène Ruggeri, Clotilde Bernard.