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> What is the strapline for this?
> What is the message; the payoff?
> Are there other examples?
There is music that evokes – is it programme music? music for programmes? Not “pure music”? How does it sound? How does it work? Does it work?
Some examples:
Hary Janos Suite Brief introduction to the suite
The suite includes a "description" of the Viennese Musical Clock.
The "clock"Is it the easiest sort of thing – evoke a clock by playing clock sounds?Starts with the chiming of the bells in a regular four note pattern, the
(Note - Kodály's own words: "According to Hungarian superstition, if a statement is followed by a sneeze of one of the hearers, it is regarded as confirmation of its truth.” So the story must indeed be true! The Prelude The orchestra starts trilling, then rises up and crashes, then slides down into a piano chord..
“Intermezzo” starts with a sneeze! - [does this count??]The orchestra plays a brief rises up – and pauses briefly before dropping into the melody.)
“I've Just Seen A Face”
calm, simple intro urgency, excitement and joy lines rolling into one another Acoustic guitar descends and another acoustic gtr does decorations in a mid tempo intro. What does this lead to? Paul starts singing more rapidly to the sound of a a rapid offbeat rhythm guitar. The lyrics pour out
One feels the urgency and surprise “conveying an adrenaline rush the singer experiences that makes him both enthusiastic and inarticulate. “
"Vltava" (from “Ma Vlast”) Brief introduction to the suite The second of the six symphonic poems, this piece evokes the river Vltava, the longest river in the Czech Republic (runs through Prague, the capital under the Charles bridge.. It starts quietly, gently, with the woodwinds Then in comes the main theme – a rolling melody evoking the flow of the river