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Title	Call of the Nomads  NEW!
Article no.	4119175
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Switzerland (ch)
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Year of publication	2023
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Composer	Fuhrer, Cedric
Difficulty level	3
Duration	8:35
Additional info/contents	In the summer of 2017 I was able to visit the beautiful Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. In addition to the incredible landscape with the Tien Shan Mountains and the lakes Issyk-Kul and Songkul (the latter at an altitude of over 3000 meters), I was particularly taken with the nomadic Kyrgyz people - and their music, which is influenced by all kinds of things. The work is divided into an introduction and two larger parts: Call - In the introduction we hear the call of the nomads across the vast steppe plains. This call appears again and again throughout the piece in a varied or quoted form. Sybyzgy - The Sybyzgy is a flute that is also common in Kazakhstan. The instrument, originally made of reed, is extremely simple in construction, but all the more difficult to play. The (not always strict) pentatonic motif is presented before D by various instruments. The lively melody in a slow march gives an idea of ​​the Far Eastern influences in Kyrgyz music. In F and especially G we then hear the melancholic side of the Sybyzgy, albeit in a large Maestoso. The dance element returns and the motif is passed through the whole band. The transition to the second part follows with a short Lento... Komuz - Here the focus is on the 2- or 3-string long-necked lute Komuz. In contrast to the Sybyzgy, the Komuz is often played quickly, virtuosically and in 12/8 time. The theme of the songs played with the Komuz is the daring riders and their hunts. The music here is influenced less by the Far East than by Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus and in the Misterioso also by the choral tradition of the former occupier of Kyrgyzstan, Russia (then the USSR). The piece ends as it began - with the call of the nomads. Exact tempo indications were deliberately omitted. Swell dynamics (crescendi and decrescendi) with no specified final dynamic are intended to show the direction of the music and may be freely interpreted by the conductor.
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	Call of the Nomads (concert/wind band), full score and parts
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