Composer: Philip Sparke

Between the Two Rivers (Variations on Ein Feste Burg)
Grade 4 - Score Only
Publisher: Anglo Music Press
Category: Band/Orchestra/Ensemble
Series: Anglo Music Concert Band
Format: Paperback

After a short and lively introduction, the theme is stated in full by various sections of the band in turn. Variation I is a moto perpetuo based on the three repeated notes which open the chorale. These eventually become the accompaniment to a more lyrical theme. Variation II is slower and march-like in character and employs various motifs derived from snippets of the theme. Variations III is the slow movement and is based on a figure taken from the second half of the theme. A sinister bass theme prefaces an explosive central episode out of which the chorale theme eventually emerges, decorated by the opening figure. Variation IV is in the form of a fugue, the theme of which eventually becomes the descant of a more lyrical melody in the middle of the band. The fugue develops along classical lines until it is combined with a full recapitulation of Luther's chorale. A faster coda, based on Variation I, closes the work.

Inventory # : 44004955
UPC: 73999175769
ISBN:
Width: 8.5"
Length: 11"
Height: 0.206"
Product Weight: 0.4 lbs.
Number of Pages: 60