Lucien GUÉRINEL (born 1930). Autograph musical manuscript, Prendre corps, Quatuor IV, 1993; 43 sheets (paginated 3-45) 36 x 26 cm. String quartet with female voices, on poems by Andrée Chedid, premiered in 1994 at the Théâtre Toursky in Marseille by the No Quartett with Brigitte Peyré (soprano) and Muriel Sommeria. The quartet has 14 movements that follow one another: I "With blood and screams"...; II "You break the enclosure"...; III "Approaching this shore"...; IV "To this world that sways"...; V "To this world that staggers"...; VI "In this body stirred by ancestors"...; VII "More fertile of each seed"...; VIII "From acts to acts"... IX "With the tree to be reborn"...; X "Out loud"...; XI "Unlocking the torches"...; XII "By the grace of a lamp"...; XIII "Thus Life spoke"... The manuscript is carefully written down in Indian ink on tracing paper, with three systems of four, five or six staves per page. It is dated at the end "February-April 1993". Printed collet with title at top of first page.