Five Pieces after Edvard Munch
General Info
Publisher: Dutch Music Partners
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:19:00
Cost: €174.95
Content
1. Self Portrait in Hell
2. The Sick Child
3. Vampire
4. Madonna
5. The Scream
Instrumentation
Player 1: Crotales
Player 2: Glockenspiel 1
Player 3: Glockenspiel 2
Player 4: Vibraphone 1
Player 5: Vibraphone 2
Player 6: Chimes
Player 7: Xylophone 1
Player 8: Xylophone 2
Player 9: Marimba 1
Player 10: Marimba 2
Player 11: Marimba 3
Player 12: Snare Drum & Tambourine & Drum Set & Wind Chimes & Claves & 3 Chinese Cymbals
Player 13: Tom Toms & Crash Cymbal & Finger Cymbals & 2 Cowbells & Tambourine & Temple Blocks
Player 14: Bongos & Whip & Field Drum & Gong (Medium and Large)
Player 15: Temple Blocks & Crash Cymbal & Wood Block & Tambourine & Vibraslap & Whip & Guiro & Tam Tam & 3 Splash Cymbals
Player 16: Bass Drum & Tam Tam & Triangle & Crash Cymbal & Splash Cymbal & Maracas & Bell Tree
Description
Munch (1863, Norway) started painting when he was seventeen. A year later he started his studies at the Arts and Crafts School in Christiania, now Oslo. Munch mainly focused on portraying human emotions, fears and insecurities. The bright colors and expressive lines he used, as well as the choice of his subjects, had a major influence on the development of expressionism. In his works, Munch reconciled contradictions such as life and death, the vertical and the horizontal line, and movement and stasis. The situation in the family in which he grew up and the general situation in the Norwegian capital were the origins of Munch's suffering. Confrontations with illness and death awakened his passion for art. For example, his mother died of tuberculosis when he was five years old. Later, his fifteen-year-old sister Sophie also died of tuberculosis, which he incorporated into the painting The Sick Child from 1885-1886. The extensive oeuvre that was created in this second phase of his artistic life generally lacks the intensity of his earlier work. The portrayal of personal despair gave way to more optimistic and general subjects: landscapes, workers and children. Typical of his changed attitude are the large murals for the auditorium of the University of Oslo. In 1916 he bought a house in Ekely, near Oslo, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1937, Munch's paintings were labeled 'entartete Kunst' by the National Socialists and 82 of his works were therefore confiscated in Germany. Edvard Munch died in early 1944 at the age of eighty.
1. Self Portrait in Hell: His depressed mind and the torment that life was for him is clearly audible. Motifs from the coming parts are clearly presented. But in a striking way that makes this overture an impressive opening forms.
2. The Sick Child: The loss of his sister. The mourning and despair are converted into sounds here. However, the printed atmosphere is alternated with memories of a better time in which children's play is depicted in the form of a music box motif. The whip makes the clapping of a skipping rope on the ground audible.
3. Vampire: The beauty, but also the threat of the vampire converted into a dynamic part with driving bar changes in a passage that has much of a chase.
4. Madonna: Munch's painting of the Madonna was very controversial. He depicts the Virgin Mary in a typical icon pose. The nudity adds an (for many inappropriate) erotic charge. This also happens in music. The work opens with an Ave-Maria-like melody/accompaniment. The atonal chords already create an alienation. The addition of a rumba-like middle section (would not have been out of place in a nightclub) and the combination of these elements at the end complete the picture.
5. The Scream: There is a great misunderstanding about The Scream. Many think that the person in the foreground is shouting, but it is nature that 'screams'. That is why he keeps his ears closed. is the environment that can be heard in the final part of this work. Just like in the opening part, the melody from Madonna is used here again.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Concertos
Concerto No. 1 for Marimba (Weijmans) - Marimba; Percussion (14)
Large Ensemble
7even - Percussion (16)
Amarna - Percussion (15)
Azhrarn - Percussion (18); Choir
Big Eyes - Percussion (12)
Broken Chains - Percussion (14)
Cake Walk - Percussion (14)
Concertino for Malletband - Percussion (18)
Fin du Siècle - Percussion (13)
Five Pieces after Edvard Munch - Percussion (16)
Hephaistos - Percussion (15)
Ma Petite Bé-mol - Vibraphone; Percussion (12)
Timeless (Weijmans) - Percussion (16); Jazz Band
Zaynah - Percussion (18)