Richard Meyer
Blue Diamond Jubilee
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Richard Meyer
Blue Diamond Jubilee
- Instrumentation String Orchestra
- Composer Richard Meyer
- Series Highland String Orchestra
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Alfred Publishing
- Order no. ALF50376
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Description:
This concert overture is full of teaching opportunities and challenges for all of your students and is the perfect opener or closer for any occasion. Written in ABA form (fast-slow-fast) , it is filled with memorable melodies, sumptuous harmonies, and mature orchestrations that give every section a chance to shine.The opening energetic "A" section features a playful ostinato figure constantly chugging along in support of an expansive, lyrical melody played above it. A gladiator-inspired theme makes a brief appearance as a nod to the commissioning high school's Trojan mascot. The "B" section, in slow 6/8, introduces a graceful minor-keyed theme that is derived from the opening notes of the initial main theme. After the second "A" section, a regal coda, marked "Maestoso," ends the piece with a beautifully sonorous treatment of the slow minor theme now played in a major key.