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Symphony

Sheet Music: Performance Parts

Symphony / Nicholas Routley

by Nicholas Routley (1999)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 flutes (both doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion (1 player), strings.

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The first movement of this symphony was inspired by the deep chanting of Tibetan monks. The second is structured on an expanding phrase played by the second violins and in nversion on the cellos. This structure, used a great deal by Arvo Pärt, is reminiscent of but not identical to that of the 17th century passacaglia. Against this other instruments or instrumental groups play repeated phrases at apparently arbitrary intervals, some at the same pitch and some at different pitches. It leads directly to the third movement which begins with a quotation from the 15th variation from Beethoven's Variations on a theme of Diabelli for piano, and continues with a hymn-like tune which my father, the theologian and church musician Erik Routley, played to me in a dream.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of performance parts

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 15 mins

Contents note:

I. Largo -- II. …the Passacaglia of the Expanding Universe Moderato - Piu presto -- III. Adagio molto - Andante con moto.

First performance by Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Martin Jarvis — Nov 00. Darwin Entertainment Centre

The Darwin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martin Jarvis. Darwin Entertainment Centre, November 2000

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This edition produced 2000.

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