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Schwartz: Music for Orchestra II, for orchestra
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Music for Orchestra II is a sonic realisation of the shape of a cross – a dramaturgy of crossing lines. Formally, its musical structure is analogous to that of the poem Elegy Howlers by the contemporary English poet Ruskin Watts, in which phonetic and semantic characteristics of German and Hebrew interact. The languages engulf each other and crisscross, evoking an endless chain of historical and philosophical associations, thus forming a geographical crossing of paths at a junction between the Occident and the Orient.
The entire composition is based on that junction; the music is more architectonic than anecdotic, more an objective construction than a description of a text. Two diametrically opposed lines approach each other slowly, meeting on a central unisono with all the instruments resonating on the 8-foot D in a forceful tutti – focused on the single common point of the orchestra’s entire gamut in a catharsis which releases a chain of eerie harmonies. Then the harmonically entwined lines begin to separate, gradually disappearing in diametrically opposed directions in a mirror-image of the first half of the work.
The solid framework of the piece supports a clear, extended arch, likewise allowing complex polyphony. The extremities of the orchestral ranges – from shrill and piercingly high to the depths of the sub-contrabass registers – stretching like the wide reach of a crossbar – along with the taut shifting of microtonal intervals, combine to form both an expression of music’s excessiveness and its primal scream.
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Type: Studienpartitur
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Difficulty: -
Format: 297 x 420 mm
ISBN: -
Pages: 62
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