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Composed by Richard Meyer. Series; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland String Orchestra. Score. Highland/Etling #00-50376S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.50376S).ISBN 9781470680435. UPC: 038081604725. English.
This concert overture is full of teaching opportunities and challenges for all of your students and is the perfect opener or closer for any occasion. Written in ABA form (fast-slow-fast), it is filled with memorable melodies, sumptuous harmonies, and mature orchestrations that give every section a chance to shine.
The opening energetic A section features a playful ostinato figure constantly chugging along in support of an expansive, lyrical melody played above it. A gladiator-inspired theme makes a brief appearance as a nod to the commissioning high school's Trojan mascot. The B section, in slow 6/8, introduces a graceful minor-keyed theme that is derived from the opening notes of the initial main theme. After the second A section, a regal coda, marked Maestoso, ends the piece with a beautifully sonorous treatment of the slow minor theme now played in a major key.
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