Idiosynkratische Tonstücke für die Orgel: VI. Im Garten von Gethsemane [Philip Daniel; 2020]

By PhilipDaniel | Musica Melopoetica | 26 Feb 2021


 

 

 

 

Sixth in a series of "Idiosyncratic Tone-Pieces" for concert organ (the instrument ideally of the "French Symphonic" variety). A tableau of the Garden of Gethsemane, featuring pensively coiling chromatic three-part counterpoint. The inner section serves as a free development of the lugubriously descending "pedal-melody" of the first section, punctuated by richly polytonal "mirror" harmony. In the final section, the first section proceeds by retrograde -- that is, the first section plays backward, to end as it began. The painting in the video is "Oleanders, the Hospital Garden at Saint-Remy" by Vincent van Gogh. 

 

 

 

 

Here, you may peruse the full engraved score:

fig. I

fig. II

 

 

 

 

 

 

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