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Trumpet and Piano (Composer)
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J.R.B. with Garritan Audio
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Julian Raoul Besset
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Trumpet with Piano Reduction only.
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Sheet Music
Scores and Parts
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Julian Raoul Besset
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Arrangements and Transcriptions
For Trumpet and Organ (Composer)
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Julian Raoul Besset
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For Horn and Organ (Composer)
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Julian Raoul Besset
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General Information
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Extase
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Besset, Julian Raoul
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IJB 18
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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1
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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2012, rev.2014
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| First Performance.
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Unperformed
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| First Publication.
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2014
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| Librettist
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Poem by Théodore Agrippa d' Aubigné (1552-1630)
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| Language
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French
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| Average DurationAvg. Duration
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6 minutes
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Modern
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| Piece Style
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Modern
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solo voices, 6-voice choir, trumpet in C
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This musical rendition of Aubigné's Sonnet Extase, with its biblical overtones in true Death where is thy sting manner, is taken from L'hécatombe à Diane (1573) the first part of his collection of Sonnets Printemps dedicated to Diane Salviati, a young Catholic, an impossible love on account of his being a converted Protestant. The music's alternating and repetitive falling rhythms and collapsing semitones are meant to mirror the poet's self-centered dereliction. A rough translation of the poem is submitted, as well as a keyboard reduction. An audio approximation is also furnished. (Cette transcription musicale du sonnet d'Agrippa d'Aubigné est tirée de l'Hécatombe à Diane, recueil dédié à Diane Salviati, une jeune catholique. Cet amour impossible, puisqu'il était protestant, est rendu par le côté répétitif, comme irrésolu, des rythmes binaires, de même que les demi-tons plongeants semblent refléter la déréliction solipsiste du poète. Une version audio approximative, synthétique, limitée à 2 instruments, est proposée à l'écoute).
The transcription for Trumpet and Organ is relatively straightforward, retaining the trumpet part in its entirety but the keyboard part, naturally, does not adhere to the original as closely. As for the arrangement for Horn and Organ, it starts out closely enough, but later on is far less literal in notes, while preserving the spirit.
