Conflusion - Suite - Woodwind Ensemble - Score Only by Thomas Graf Chamber Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1531101

Fantasy in 3 movements for large wind ensemble, double bass and percussion
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute 1
Flute 2
Oboe 1
Oboe 2
English Horn
Clarinet 1 in Bb
Clarinet 2 in Bb
Bass Clarinet in Bb
Bassoon 1
Bassoon 2
Contrabassoon
Trumpet 1 in Bb
Trumpet 2 in Bb
Trumpet 3 in Bb
Trombone 1
Trombone 2
Trombone 3
Tuba
Contrabass
Perc 1 (Snare Drum
Chimes)
Perc 2 (Triangle
Cymbals)

1. Deux Caracteres
2. Dialogues
3. Dance de Confusion
Confluence is the name of a place in Lyon where 2 rivers flow together: The Saône flows into the - at least in German - female Rhone. In French, however, it flows into DEN Rhone - Le Rhône. This confuses the composer: How do rivers get their gender, are they sometimes male, sometimes female? Is it because of their character, because of the landscape that they flow through? By their water, even by their fish? On the people on their shores? A real confusion ensues.
In the subsequent thoughts about music, the composer discovers certain analogies and asks himself the question: does gender-typical music actually exist? Or instruments? Typically male harmonies or rhythms? Or clearly female melodies and the way to interpret?
The 3-movement composition is dedicated to this question and meanders like a dance in the bed of the converging streams. Colorful modal harmonies form the bed for wide arcs of melody. A varied, recurring theme sets the direction and creates a bubbling, dancing pull in the direction of the mouth: dancing finale!

1st movement: Deux Characters
In the first movement (Andante) the roles are distributed - the Sâone and the Rhône get their performers. A first glance at the ensemble reveals a tendency: woodwinds take on the female lead, the male brass the counterpart. The two drummers each support one of the two poles in solidarity. The assignment may be obvious, but strong doubts remain in the final chord of the first movement.

2. Dialogues
In smaller and larger dialogues, there is a lively exchange and the properties are worked out and further developed. But it is also increasingly being copied and imitated, even maliciously agitated and aped. You try to convince each other, interrupt each other, both sides increasingly flare up, it gets louder and more hectic, louder and louder, too loud, until communication stops: in the end, you just yell at each other!

3. Dance de Confusion
The resulting confusion finds a conciliatory end in the third movement of the composition: Let's dance!
In the end, the initial "confusion" turns into a "confusion": what belongs together flows and dances together.

Deutsch: Phantasie in 3 Sätzen für Großes Bläserensemble, Kontrabass und Schlagwerk
1. Deux Caractères
2. Dialogues
3. Dance de Conflusion.