Examples of using Celesta in English and their translations into German
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For celesta and strings.
For flute, two saxophones, celesta and two pianos.
Its repetition is wreathed by the sound of harp and celesta.
For flute, harp, celesta and percussion.
In Askisto the romantic sounding Meta4string quartet forms a compelling contrast to the celesta, piano and bass.
Eight years before composing Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Bartók admitted:"In my more recent works I use more counterpoint than I used to.
He convinces his men, who thought him dead, that they are immortal now and they agree to help him to prevent Xena's rescue of Celesta- so they can live forever.
Around 1900 Debussy composed 12 short pieces for two flutes,two harps and celesta as incidental music for the Chansons de Bilitis(recitation of ancient Greek poems by the courtesan Bilitis) by Pierre Louÿs.
Here the most delicateorchestral colours are created out of the combination of celesta, harp, flute and high strings.
The central Moderato with its canonical structure owes a clear debt to Bartók's Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta, but Ginastera also finds his own voice here when he juxtaposes the sinister-sounding ensemble against the solo harp playing"lirico e lontano" as the instrument of Orpheus.
While being engaged in the opera and operetta departments of the National Theater in Brno, I played the celesta, organ, piano and trombone.
In the finale the apotheosis of music takes place:the introduction is a kind of duo for piano and celesta, with some interjections from the orchestra and the previously-mentioned obsessive line from the first movement in the bassoon; this then becomes a lullaby on the cor anglais of the personified melody for the slumbering youth, whose part contains the following verses:"Connais-tu le pays/ Où fleurit l'adagio?
In addition there is an extensivepercussion section as well as two harps, a celesta and offstage harmonium and organ.
Around 1900, Debussy composed, as stage music for the songs of Bilitis(transcriptions of the ancient Greek poems of the courtesan Bilitis) of Pierre Louÿs, twelve short pieces for two flutes,two harps and celesta.
Also indicative of the work's dominant sonorities is its use of vibraphone,guitar, celesta, harpsichord and saxophone quartet.
Directing the orchestra of the Komische Oper was Steven Sloane, who not only sparked off the lush tone painting of the score, with its blazes of fire, Medea's horn melodies,Kreon's brass pomp and Kreusa's interplay of harp and celesta.
For example, the perfection displayed in the first movement of his Music for String Instruments,Percussion and Celesta, which is as vivid as Bach, or the riotous dance scenes in The Miraculous Mandarin.
We grasp the importance of this colour chord if we call in mind occurrences like the'diatonic' form of the fugue-theme in Bartók'sMusic for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Movement IV, b. 204.
The programme reflected a chronological and stylistic focus typical of Boulez: Béla Bartók's Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta, which is characterized by rhythmic elan, conceptual refinement and unusual instrumentation, was composed only six years after Ravel's Concerto.
He convinces his men, who thought him dead, that they are immortal now andthey agree to help him to prevent Xena's rescue of Celesta- so they can live forever.
The entry for Béla Bartók in Fasquelle's Encyclopédie de la musique(1958) refers to the Music for Strings,Percussion and Celesta as a"great instrumental bonanza", whose first movement"is without doubt the finest example, indeed a touchstone, of Bartók's refined idiom.
His work Alagoana, which was initially composed as ballet music, is characterized by a complex time structure and unusual scoring, with instruments such as vibraphone,guitar, celesta, harpsichord and saxophone quartet.
In D(Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra), 2003Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 solo Strings(Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra), 2003Béla Bartók: Divertimento for strings,percussion and celesta(Baltic Chamber Orchestra), 2004Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonic concerto for violin and alto(Soloists- Lev Klytchkov and Vladimir Stopitchev, Baltic Chamber Orchestra), 2005Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for violin(Soloist- Regis Pasquier, Baltic Chamber Orchestra), 2006==External links==* Biography(French)* Photos.
This last-named work was a commission from the founder and conductor of the Basle Chamber Orchestra, Paul Sacher, who had already commissioned two otherpieces by Bartók, the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
Effects such as the second dissonances in the strings playing sul tasto(on the fingerboard),the clarinet and bassoon cadenzas and the crystalline dialogue of the harp and celesta light up and disappear again, briefly take on rhythmic contour and then end in faint string harmonics which fade away into nothingness.
Arn Goerke unleashes an almost material flood with the Hof Symphony Orchestra and frees every possible substance and sound variation from the instruments, that the composer based on strong brass,increased wood winds and enhanced with bells and celesta.
Boulez divided the ensemble into two parts; first, there is the group of"soloists", whose instruments need a resonator to sound:piano, celesta, cimbalom, glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, harp, mandolin and guitar.
He tackles this psychological landscape by bringing a ritual quality to the score, while themes of departure and loss are represented by a sense of sonic decay, relying on the instrumentation of a few sustained tones on pianos,harps and celesta.
There can be no more compelling argument for his assertion than the opening bars of the overture to Die Gezeichneten(The Stigmatised, 1918),that mesmerising bi-tonal shimmer of violins, harps, celesta and piano hovering over a sinuous, serpentine melody in the bass clarinet and lower strings.
Instrumentation==The work is scored for 3 flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 8 horns, 5 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, small and large bells,tam-tam, celesta, organ(harmonium if the organ is not available), 2 harps and strings.