Fragments in E-flat and B-flat major, Biamonti 244 (1800) orchestrated

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Piece Overview
Instrumentation Class: 2 - Miscellaneous Orchestral Works
Opus #: 043
Biamonti #: 244
Midi Author: Mark S. Zimmer
Running Time: 00:49

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Fragments in E-flat and B-flat major, Biamonti 244 (1800) These two fragments are written in two staves as if in a piano score, but the note stems are pointing in such a way as to suggest that they represent different parts in a reduced orchestral score. Exceedingly difficult to read, they do represent some interesting motifs, and probably were intended for a movement in the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus, op. 43. The first is a playful theme that varies the rhythms of its principal figure in slightly unexpected ways from measure to measure, while the second, somewhat longer fragment of 18 bars, is quite a dramatic transitional sequence, winding up on a massive seventh that alas never resolves. The sketches are found at page 151 of the Landsberg 7 sketchbook of 1800, on staves 1-6.These fragments are presented in MIDI form as both piano and a conjectural orchestral assignment, and an mp3 of this orchestral version. The latter utilizes samples from Garritan Personal Orchestra.

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