Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, Clarinet, Oboe SKU: HL.14035484 Composed by Hans...(+)
Alto Saxophone, Bassoon,
Clarinet, Oboe
SKU:
HL.14035484
Composed
by Hans Abrahamsen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 56
pages. Music Sales
#KP00679. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14035484).
ISBN
9788759871454.
10.25x14.5x0.463 inches.
Danish.
Walden for
wind quintet was written
in 1978 and commissioned
by the Funen Wind
Quintet. The title is
taken from the American
philosopher and poet
Henry David Thoreau's
novel from 1854 about
living in the woods,
which Thoreau did for two
years. His stay there was
an experiment, an attempt
to strip away all the
artificial needs imposed
by society and rediscover
man's lost unity with
nature. In that
particular sense his
novel is a documentation
of social inadequacy and
a work of poetry (Utopia)
as well. All thought
Thoreau himself never
completed any actual
social analysis he was
way ahead of his own time
in his perception of the
economy and cyclic
character of Nature,
today knownas ecology.
His ideas are
particularly relevant now
that pollution caused by
society has reached
alarming proportions.
Walden was written in a
style of re-cycling and
new simplicity. A lot of
superfluous material has
been peeled away in order
to give space to
different qualities such
as identity and clarity.
Various layers are
encountered in the
quintet such as the
organic (growth,
flowering, Decay),
concretism (mechanical
patterns) and finally the
descriptive (distant horn
calls and other
ghost-like music of the
past enter our
consciousness like a
dream). Walden consist of
four movements. In 1995
another version for reed
quintet was written to
the Calefax Reed Quintet.
Hans Abrahamsen.