{"id":3988,"date":"2024-02-08T10:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3988"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:05:54","slug":"rachmaninov-four-pieces-for-brass-septet-pdf-download","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/resonatamusic.com\/?product=rachmaninov-four-pieces-for-brass-septet-pdf-download","title":{"rendered":"Rachmaninov &#8211; Four Pieces for Brass Septet (PDF Download)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rachmaninov\u2019s career was still in its infancy (although he had already had considerable success with his one-act opera <i>Aleko<\/i>) when he composed his <i>Op. 11 Six Morceaux<\/i>, a suite in the long Russian tradition of four-hands piano music. The collection was written at breakneck speed in April 1894, and he conceded that its principal purpose was \u201cto balance the books\u201d. Nevertheless, the hallmarks of his developing style are already evident, notably in the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2014bell-tolls and melodies based on liturgical chants\u2014and folk song. Bell-tolls play a crucial role in the <i>Scherzo<\/i>, interrupting the frenzied triple-time dance to usher in slower, more reflective music, giving the movement a decidedly programmatic character. And in the questing <i>Romance<\/i> the unsettled and chromatic melodic line contrasts with a steady and unwavering bell-like accompaniment. The outer movements are variations on existing melodies\u2014the well-known traditional <i>Song of the Volga Boatmen<\/i> in the opening B minor <i>Russian Theme<\/i>, and a Russian Orthodox chant (one that coincidentally also appears in the Coronation Scene of Mussorgsky\u2019s <i>Boris Godunov<\/i>) in the concluding climax of <i>Slava!<\/i> (Glory). Strangely, there is very little <i>thematic<\/i> development in either: after initial trombone intonations the themes are repeated\u2014re-harmonised and transposed, housed in different textures, and played at different tempos, but essentially unaltered throughout. This gives both a gnomic air: irredeemably desolate in the <i>Russian Theme<\/i>, and building towards an inextinguishably triumphant C major in the epic climax of <i>Slava<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parts included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Score<\/li>\n<li>Trumpet in E-flat<\/li>\n<li>Trumpet 1 in B-flat<\/li>\n<li>Trumpet 2 in B-flat<\/li>\n<li>Trombone 1<\/li>\n<li>Trombone 2<\/li>\n<li>Trombone 3<\/li>\n<li>Tuba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Purchasing this product entitles you to download it three times. 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