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Title	Jupiter's Monde
Article no.	4025730
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Switzerland (ch)
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Series title	blow 'n' hit
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Year of publication	2001
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Composer	Wollmann, Thorsten
Difficulty level	4
Evaluation level of countries	D5 (German highest level)
Duration	10:00
Additional info/contents	Jupiter's Moons, a commissioned composition by the conducting class of Mr. Felix Hauswirth at the Basel University of Music, is a four-part programmatic sound composition which, like Holst's Planets, takes its inspiration from foreign and distant worlds. The four largest and completely different moons of the planet Jupiter have not yet been researched very much, but their physical composition is known and there are good photographs taken by the Galileo space probe. The names of these celestial bodies, which are very important for science, come from Greek mythology and their meaning was also taken into account in my attempt at a musical characterization. Approaching the planet Jupiter from space, one crosses the orbit of Callisto, which is the outermost of the four Galilean moons. Callisto is a nymph in Greek mythology, which also fits with its dark, mysterious and rather delicate appearance. When looking at the NASA photos, I noticed various bright spots that shine and glitter in a peculiar way. The music focuses on a slight rotary motion that is meant to suggest the rotation of the celestial body in space and in relation to the other moons and planets. The character of the music is mysterious, alien and is mainly performed in high wood registers. Movement becomes sound in a denser tutti middle section. Ganymede is the name of a Greek boy. The moon is Jupiter's largest and most massive. Huge craters cover its grey and scarred surface. In contrast to its neighbour Callisto, I characterise Ganymede as more static. Brass and tutti colours predominate in the deeper areas and suggest power and mass. Europa is mythologically a beautiful princess from Asia whose name was only transferred to our continent much later. Scientifically speaking, this bluish moon is of great interest as it is believed that there is a huge ocean beneath the surface, which consists of ice sheets and could perhaps even contain some form of life. The introduction and end of the composition are dominated by icy, crystal-like hexatonic sound structures in the woods. The music in between is the fantasy of diving into the depths of a dark and unknown ocean, an eerie but arguably fascinating utopia. Io, the innermost of Jupiter's large moons, is the most active and spectacular moon in our solar system. Its color is sulfur yellow and it is squeezed so much by the gravitational forces of the nearby giant planet that there are a number of active volcanoes on its surface. As the climax of the suite Jupiter's Moons, this fourth movement is a rhythmic orgy or stampede in the musical sense. Tempo, meter and harmony culminate here in an ecstatic fire magic, which is fueled by full percussion and tutti instrumentation and reaches its culmination point in a wide-ranging twelve-tone cluster. I. KALLISTO II. GANYMED III. EUROPA VI. IO
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