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Title	Imagasy - Tone Picture for Concert Band
Article no.	3043127
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Germany (de)
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Year of publication	2007
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Composer	Kraas, Thiemo
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	A4 (Austrian D level); D3 (German medium level); C3 (Swiss 2nd class)
Duration	10:10
Additional info/contents	"Imagasy" was written in autumn 2002 for the student competition "Jugend komponiert NRW". The piece received a 2nd prize and was premiered by the "Junge Bläserphilharmonie" under the direction of Pierre Kuijpers. Imagasy is a portmanteau word, a combination of the English terms "imagination" and "fantasy" which makes clear what the programme of this composition is. Taking the Bible text "In the beginning was the Word" as its starting point, the intention of Imagasy is to suggest to the listener that the origin of all creativity is imagination and illusion. Kraas himself writes about his composition: "Fantasy is definitely one of the most wonderful gifts which has been given to us. It is up to us to permit our fantasy to unfold itself or else to succumb to the rationality of the modern world." Kraas does not see in the juxtaposition of reason and fantasy an incompatible set of opposites, but simply two aspects of human existence which belong together. The composer was motivated to write his work after watching a little child painting who, completely lost in his activity, created a dream world for himself. "With his boundless fantasy he painted me a story" is how Kraas describes this experience. His tone language expresses itself in a tremendously emotional and sonorous way. Although he does not disown his compositional models, he tries to bring his almost overflowing wealth of musical ideas into a form dictated by musical logic. His sense of sound and the instrumental variety which he uses to realise his tonal ideas are captivating. Wonderful solo passages stand side by side with great tapestries of sound often developed from the tenor and bass registers, themselves rich in overtones. Filigree delicacy contrasts with voluminous passages, and a lively leggiero intensifies into a pathos of broad dimensions. At the same time, Kraas' music also has a considerable entertainment value for his audiences and can also motivate its interpreters to advance in their intended performance towards limits which are not always usual in wind music. In this context it is of particular interest, that this composition stimulated the well-known Potsdam artist Christian Heinze to paint the wonderfully delicate picture which forms the cover of the booklet in this CD. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob/EHrn 1,2 Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 BClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Trp 1,2,3 Hrn in F+Eb 1,2,3 Trb in C 1,2,(3/BsTrb) (BC) Trb in Bb 1,2,(3/BsTrb) (BC+TC) Brt in C (BC) Brt in Bb/Tnh (BC+TC) Euph in C (BC) Euph in Bb (BC+TC) EsTub (BC+TC) BTub (BC+TC) Tub in C 1,2 KB Tmp Perc 1,2,3
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	Imagasy - Tone Picture for Concert Band (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Imagasy - Tone Picture for Concert Band (concert/wind band), full score
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