Brandenburg Gate
for Chamber Orchestra
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SKU: SU.91770600
For Chamber Orchestra. Composed by Paul Moravec. Chamber Music, Larger Chamber Ensemble. Study Score. Composed 2008. Duration 15'. Subito Music Corporation #91770600. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.91770600).Solo violin; 1010; 0100; stgs Duration: 15' Composed: 2008 Published by: Subito Music Publishing For trumpet, flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), solo violin and strings. Approximately 17 minutes.Full Score & Parts: available on rental: The title, Brandenburg Gate, suggests a portal through which we enter Bach's world of exuberant invention. It also refers to the actual monument in Berlin, which I personally associate primarily with the astonishing images of the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. There are three movements in this piece—fast-slow-fast—and they are played attacca, that is, without interruption between the movements. The name Bach, B-A-C-H, can be represented in German musical notation as B-flat – A – C – B-natural. Bach himself used this device occasionally in his own music, and various composers since then have followed his lead in tribute to the master. This piece is, among other things, a musical meditation and elaboration on the motive. As the B-A-C-H motive is a chromatic four-pitch collection, it well suits my characteristically chromatic harmonic language. Occasionally, the motive serves as the foundation of various twelve-tone rows treated in the general context of my own particular tonality. –Paul Moravec