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Re: Sibelius 2

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-04-20 12:19

If you're talking about the 5th bar of S until the end, it *is* an eccentric bit of composition. It's surely meant to be a textural effect with the clarinets accenting the first beat, the bassoons, tuba, cellos, basses and timpani accenting beat two all against the chorale in the trumpets and trombones. Maybe Sibelius imagined church bells chiming along with some victorious chorale in the brass, or maybe water of a Swedish river lapping up against the fjords towering above it.

I don't know that the clarinets could possibly come out very audibly against all the rest of the soundscape Sibelius has created (the accents on beat 2 are much more strongly orchestrated), but it's a wonderful effect to imagine, looking at the score.

Karl

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