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Title	Weather Report
Article no.	4055639
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Country of publication	Japan (jp)
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Series title	Concert Band Series
Year of publication	2011
Composer	Takahashi, Shin'ya
Difficulty level	4
Duration	6:30
Additional info/contents	One of my new thoughts for composition has been to ask students for titles, images and ideas. For this commission I collected many interesting concepts, and quite a few had to do with weather. So, I constructed the piece based on weather news and report. After the main weather news presentation, the meteorologist presents the daily weather forecast: 'The morning will be clear and beautiful (from measure 27) becoming cloudy at noon (94) and eventually shower later (102). Rain intensity will increase (poco a poco cresc.) turning into a thunderstorm (111). Towards the evening, rain and storm will leave, and there will be a beautiful sunset (149). That's the weather for today (with ending theme song 165).” Two fundamental motives are used to build melodies, counter-melodies and accompanying lines, including example (a) an ascending diatonic line and (b) descending 2nd and 4th pitches.
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