Eclipse finale?
Chamber Orchestra - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Tuba
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Chamber Orchestra
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Classical
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Editions BIM
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Grade 5
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Tuba and chamber orchestra (2.2.2.2. - 2.2.0.0. - perc(2) - strings) - Grade 5

SKU: ET.TU16E

Composed by Jost Meier. Contemporary. Orchestra score. Composed 2004. Duration 8'. Editions BIM #TU16E. Published by Editions BIM (ET.TU16E).

ISBN 9790207012593.

The music of “Eclipse Finale? is a fantasy on the well-known German folk song “Der Mond ist aufgegangen (The moon has risen). “Eclipse finale? is a piece which presents the age-old fear that the moon will not rise again. The tuba, as in an opera, plays a dramatic role representing humanity, which is questioning the frightening destruction of the nature and the environment.


This one-movement piece consists of free variations on a folk song. The theme develops from an introduction made up of elements based on the melody, and then progressively is transformed until the end, where the tuba presents a brutal caricature of the principal theme. The dying away of the tympani tremolo poses the question: has mankind already destroyed the environment (symbolized hereby the moon)?
Jost Meier.