Concert Band
The Young Explorer Part 2
Eine musikalische Entdeckungsreise
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The trilogy THE YOUNG EXPLORER is a special edition of the series EXPLORA. Composer Kees Vlak wants to show with this extraordinary project how a composition and the work of the composer develop.
Part 2 OVERTURE
In the first part COMPOSER’S WORKSHOP the composer created the musical themes and six different variations. This second part OVERTURE is supposed to show, how a composer puts the different elements together and creates a piece of music. The introduction of the OVERTURE is based on the main motif from part 1 cOMPOSER’S WORKSHOP. This main motif consists of the first two measures of the main theme. In this case, the composer slightly changes motif, so the audience does not get the impression that the main theme appears already in the beginning. After the introduction the main theme is introduced with accompanying chords. A bridge section repeats the two measures of the main motif several times. The following middle part is actually the waltz version of part 1 COMPOSER’S WORKSHOP, but with a modified beginning, so the main theme does not appear to often and the composition does not sound boring. After the main theme is heard in its original form once more, there is the finale in form of a fast French dance, a farandole. This has also been changed a little bit and ends with canonical, polyphonic sounds.
eXplora Grade 2
eXplora Disc 13