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Title	Aus einer Sage (From A Legend)
Article no.	9064040
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Suite
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	Prstm
Country of publication	Germany (de)
Publisher *	Schorer Music Publishing
Publisher's article no. *	AS 10-00136
Delivery publisher *	HeBu Musikverlag GmbH, 76703 Kraichtal
Delivery publisher's art.no. *	HeBu 102062
EAN (GTIN) *	4025511001366
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Composer	Wollmann, Thorsten
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	D4 (German upper level)
Duration	8:50
Additional info/contents	A suite in four movements: In the cathedral, Encounter at a party, The magic castle, and The conquest. BeNeLux Parts Download
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Programme notes *: The short suite leads through curious headings of the four movements into a different world than today. The composer uses baroque dance forms such as the fast Gigue and the calm Pavane; he uses the technique of bass variations; he uses harmonic fourth-quint-sounds as they are characteristic for medieval music; he often uses the ostinato for melodic or rhythmic motives. And yet it is not a matter of historicizing, but of music of our time; this is testified above all by the tonal-colored mixed sounds of the third movement and the rhythmic energy of the fourth. In the short performance time of only eight minutes, a rich and contrasting scenery is unfolded. Chapels that are used to playing music whose conventional tonal language usually remains the same are rewarded by Wollmann for their efforts by gaining new, subtle musical expressiveness. The first movement "In the Cathedral" is opened by a solemn chorale. Its melody is based on a chromatic downward bass line. This six-bar bass repeats itself four times and acquires the meaning of a "basso ostinato". The middle voices harmonize the bass in a traditional way with many recumbent voices and little movement effort. In the first bass repetition, triplet figures vary the theme, while in the second repetition, the bass is condensed into sixteenths. The third section, shortened to four bars, raises the chorale to a major climax. The theme then concludes the atmospherically dense, darkly colored movement as a recapitulation. The 2nd movement "Begegnung auf einem Fest" (Gigue) flows in a light, dance-like 6/8 movement. The smooth melody is based on slowly moving, hollow fifth sounds. While the dance movement begins with a regular eight-bar melody, it continues in irregularly shaped bar groups. The longer middle section consolidates the melodic movement to a central quinttone, which is repeated as an axis thirty times as an ostinato, one-bar rhythm. The melodic events, on the other hand, shift into the middle and lower voices in an aperiodic fashion. The 3rd movement "Das Zauberschloss" (The Magic Castle) strides in the gravitational rhythm of a pavane. A melody with emphasis on the second counting unit develops over calm, quint-enhanced bass passages, like in a Sarabande. The charm lies in the melodically accompanying, shimmering mixed sounds that elude a clear definition. The middle section contrasts with an ostinato, mirror-inverted four-tone accompaniment figure. The 4th movement "The Conquest" is based on an energetic, martial rhythm, performed by all percussion instruments and several wind stops, into which a challenging melody calls out. The piece culminates in a pure rhythm. Quelle/source: HeBu Music Publisher Information: HeBu Musikverlag

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	Aus einer Sage (From A Legend) (concert/wind band), Prstm
	Aus einer Sage (From A Legend) (concert/wind band), full score
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