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Title	Corsican Litany
Article no.	9123840
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Original contemporary music (20th, 21st century)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	USA (us)
Publisher *	Bourne Inc
Publisher's article no. *	B 317043
Year of publication	1976
Composer	Nelhybel, Vaclav
Difficulty level	3
Evaluation level of countries	A2 (Austrian B level); C2 (Swiss 3rd class); D4 (German upper level)
Duration	7:00
Additional info/contents	The melody is introduced with mourning and becomes passionate until it reaches a climax. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 AClr BClr CBClr SSax ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Cnt 1,2,3 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb 1,2,3 Euph Tuba Tmp Perc: -BD -Cym -Wispi -Gng -SD -TDr -TmTm
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Programme notes *: In this work an old custom is described: long ago what it was common in many places in the Mediterranean to order professional funeral songs for a funeral. These songs expressed the suffering of the bereaved loudly and dramatically. Mostly these litanies were sung by women who had mastered this macabre art well and were willing to pay for it. In Kosika, a distinction was made between two different litanies: ... "Lamentation of a normal death"... "Vocero", if the deceased had been murdered. The singing in "Vocero" was painful, the act could only be atoned for by an act of revenge. The present piece is based on a "Vocero" which was sung for the first time at the funeral of the country doctor Mateju. The melody rises from melancholic intensity to the climax of the "vow of revenge". The work was written in 1975, exactly 200 years after the event. Quelle/Source: CD-Covertext Tags: Ancient Cultures Feelings and emotions life and death

	Format
	Corsican Litany (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Corsican Litany (concert/wind band), full score
	10-Mid Europe: Kurorchester MV Oberlaa (AT), CDR
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