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Title	Blue Horizons
Article no.	4034613
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Original contemporary music (20th, 21st century)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts); CD (audio CD)
Country of publication	Switzerland (ch)
Publisher *	Mitropa
Publisher's article no. *	0956-02-013 M
Delivery publisher *	Hal Leonard Europe
Series title	Masterworks Series
EAN (GTIN) *	9790035026328
ISMN *	979-0-03502632-8
ISMN-10 *	M-03502632-8
Year of publication	2002
Composer	Cesarini, Franco
Opus no.	Op.23b
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	C5 (Swiss highest class)
Duration	15:00

No.	Track title	Sound sample
1	Part I.
2	Part II.
3	Part III.

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Sound sample *
Video sample *
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Programme notes *: The piece is about the sea and its crearures and consists of three movements that follow each other without interruption. In the first movement, Luminescent Creatures, the composer describes the environment of the sea at a depht of more than 1000 metres, where there is no light and the ocean looks like an ink stain. In order to catch their prey, very rare in such dark waters, abyssal creatures use luminescent organs. Huge mouth, as well as dilatable stomachs, give the fish an ancestral look, allowing it to exploit to the utmost the scare alimentary resources of this part of the ocean. The deadly fight between the two most powerful predators of the sea - the sperm whale and the giant octopus - is the subject of the second movement Leviathan against Kraken. It is well known that giant octopuses get into huge fights with sperm whales: but who is the victim and who is the aggressor? The sperm whale, dat can swim at a depht of 3000 metres for two hours, is a creature that eats octopuses, while the giant octopus has been accused of being responsible for the round-shaped scars that often cover the heads of sperm whales. Since other species of whales plunge to the same depht as the sperm whale, and have no similar scars, it can be assumed that the aggressors are the sperm whales. The title of the third movement, The Blue Whale, refers to a beautiful blue whale, the biggest living creature on earth. A play on words concerning the term "blue" relates to the danger that oceans and their inhabitants constantly have to face because the biological and industrial waste that gets thrown into the ocean. This waste often contains chemical substances that can alter and break the food chain. Crude oil poisons the sea and excessive fishing has brought some oceanic creatures to the verge of extinction. It is estimated that at present between 6000 and 14.000 blue whales still live in the oceans. Quelle/Source: Mitropa Tags: Animal and insects Secrets of the Seas

	Format
	Blue Horizons (concert/wind band), full score and parts; audio CD
	Blue Horizons (concert/wind band), full score
	Franco Cesarini: A Composer's Portrait, 6CD

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