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Title	Apocalyptica
Article no.	4036382
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Original contemporary music (20th, 21st century)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Germany (de)
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Year of publication	2010
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Composer	Weber, Johannes S.
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	D5 (German highest level)
Duration	8:00
Additional info/contents	Roland Emmerich's "2012": the economic crisis, natural disasters, world climate reports - every day new predictions of an uncertain turn of the times come crashing down on us. Johannes S. Weber gives a consistent musical answer to the current forecasts of the future with his almost eight-minute work "Apocalyptica". The biblical Apocalypse with its analogous metaphors of the end of the world, the judgement of God, but also the expectation of salvation and revelation is the theme of his work. With forward-looking wind music language, the composer draws the dramatic impression in various sound images: An initial unison in all instruments is crossed by a motif in horns and trombones. Second intervals, which expand into thirds in the course of the piece, are the basic material of the entire work. Various images follow, describing the individual scenes of the apocalypse in their diverse manifestations: Expectations of disaster, followed by falling fireballs, dust over the earth, the approach of an imaginary army audible from afar, a fanfare introduces the battle scene, abrupt interruption, echo-like sounds form a rising contrapuntal wave that throws the listener back to the scene of the confrontation. The well-structured work for symphonic wind orchestra (highest level), divided into several short sections, is quite demanding, especially rhythmically, and demands precision and good interplay from orchestra and conductor. It is the conductor's task to place the sequence of sound images under a dramatic overall arch. Prt PicFlt (und Flöte in C Solo) Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3,4 BClr ASax 1,2 TSax 1,2 BSax Trp 1,2,3,4 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb in C 1,2 BsTrb in C Flh 1,2 Brt in C 1,2 Tub in C 1,2 KB/EBas (Fretless) Tmp BD Perc 1,2 Vib/Syn
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