Musical Analysis Of The Festival Overture By Alfred Redard
The festival overture is a piece of wind music composed by the famous American wind composer Alfred Redard in 1963. The work is filled with enthusiasm from beginning to end, and the language of music is very simple and direct, reflecting the scene of people in the festival from carnival night to sleep to a new day to celebrate.
At the beginning, the trumpet, trombone and timpani play the most core theme of the music together. Timpani is just like a blooming firework. Later, woodwind instruments and horns emphasize this theme in syncopation. After the first two cymbals, the music begins to move forward, forming a school of festive exultation in the upward tone of the trumpet and the downward of the bass. Then, under the trombone, trumpet, and percussion, the main tone changed from major to minor, and the curtain was opened. The horn and saxophone blew out the tall and dignified image, and then the image shifted to the trumpet part, becoming clearer and brighter. The woodwind sound was like a joyous dance step, light and powerful. Then the solo of the clarinet, the trumpet and the trombone developed the first theme respectively. The solo of the clarinet was easy and did not lack the desire, and then the melody was re-presented and became more complete in the woodwind part.
After is the cornet and flute solo, is the second largest theme music, then this topic in tuba and asks to get back again, after the trumpet type variation the tonic, the second largest theme and trombone, cornet re-render, type and woodwind parts for the tonic of transposing play but also the two subjects together, to bring music to the first climax. After orgasm, the trumpet of the three parts is the first big topic again variation, then the first figure is woodwind variation again, cornet again played the second topic, lighter at the same time, the music seems to be entering into the quiet on the outskirts of cities, quiet beautiful, flute, glockenspiel, clarinet, fill the first theme, saxophone continuous variation, the music through the rural wind, then seemed to back to the beginning of the cornet, flute, will first themes recur, happy holiday to return to, then wind and cornet constantly stressed the first theme, bass was particularly like the festival fireworks, and percussion Angle iron, the festival celebration into its climax, thus The woodwinds whizzed through with a 16-note melody, and eventually the music returned to the first theme, ending the night festivities and putting people to sleep.
Adagio movement is given priority to with solo, from horn, clarinet, flute, tuba, saxophone, flute, cornet, horn, the music is very calm, the first and second theme repeated theme, seems festival celebration is not completely over, incense, recounting, adagio finally ended in the oboe and saxophone solo, the music back to the original speed, a new day, the first hearing is the first theme, this is the beginning of the variation, trombone, trumpet, woodwind layers to undertake respectively, reconstructed the wind again big music doubled and tuba, clarinet.
The theme of the cornet, constantly repeating old music melody is slowly coming to an end, continuous affect woodwind, brass horn, the first theme music again, again last night, the wind quickly play, bass power. Finally the end of the piece or in the first topic, like at the beginning, exult eventually reach perfection, in the final.
