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Point Bak by Gerard Lecointe is a fantastic work for mallet ensemble based on themes from "The Well Tempered Clavier" of J.S. Bach.
"In 1997 I composed Point Bak on request of a French festival dedicated to the work Jean Sebastien Bach. My goal was not to arrange once again some pages of the Master of Leipzig, but to compose a work intended for all type of audiences. Thus I decided to compose a musical entertainment working around the "First Book of the Well Tempered Clavier ", which starts, as each one knows, by the universally known C major prelude.
Then preludes and fugues are following from what I extracted few themes keeping original tonalities. Each time it is only few bars that I use as material of composition and that become alternately rhythmic or melodic.
The first movement is built on a rhythmic obstinacy, some repeated notes unceasingly from the first fugue then from the prelude and fugue number two; power of the sound, musical hallucination.
The second movement builds a new melody on some notes of the third prelude and concludes by juxtaposing the sublimes harmonies of the eighth prelude and citations of Maurice Ravel; intimacy, beauty of the instruments.
After a short introductory using the seventeenth prelude, the third movement ventures through bitonale modes mixing quasi simultaneously prelude number nine and tenth fugue, then it concludes using a new theme with rhythmic cells of the sixth prelude; shimmer and flutter of sonorities.
The last movement starts in the style of Prokofiev diverting several short element of themes, and is followed by a musical mischief startup around four bars indefinitively repeated from the preludes ten and sixteen, this fourth movement resumes the obstinacy of the first forming thus a musical arch; swiftness, sound pleasure.
As a conclusion, the first prelude must be considered as an epilogue reinforcing the idea that the music from the man who would have most influenced the occidental music stays universal and will always resist to all temptations and all modes."
Gerard Lecointe
Number of players - 5
Difficulty - Advanced
Instrumentation -
2 vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspeil, 3 marimbas, 2 cymbals, tam-tam
"In 1997 I composed Point Bak on request of a French festival dedicated to the work Jean Sebastien Bach. My goal was not to arrange once again some pages of the Master of Leipzig, but to compose a work intended for all type of audiences. Thus I decided to compose a musical entertainment working around the "First Book of the Well Tempered Clavier ", which starts, as each one knows, by the universally known C major prelude.
Then preludes and fugues are following from what I extracted few themes keeping original tonalities. Each time it is only few bars that I use as material of composition and that become alternately rhythmic or melodic.
The first movement is built on a rhythmic obstinacy, some repeated notes unceasingly from the first fugue then from the prelude and fugue number two; power of the sound, musical hallucination.
The second movement builds a new melody on some notes of the third prelude and concludes by juxtaposing the sublimes harmonies of the eighth prelude and citations of Maurice Ravel; intimacy, beauty of the instruments.
After a short introductory using the seventeenth prelude, the third movement ventures through bitonale modes mixing quasi simultaneously prelude number nine and tenth fugue, then it concludes using a new theme with rhythmic cells of the sixth prelude; shimmer and flutter of sonorities.
The last movement starts in the style of Prokofiev diverting several short element of themes, and is followed by a musical mischief startup around four bars indefinitively repeated from the preludes ten and sixteen, this fourth movement resumes the obstinacy of the first forming thus a musical arch; swiftness, sound pleasure.
As a conclusion, the first prelude must be considered as an epilogue reinforcing the idea that the music from the man who would have most influenced the occidental music stays universal and will always resist to all temptations and all modes."
Gerard Lecointe
Number of players - 5
Difficulty - Advanced
Instrumentation -
2 vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspeil, 3 marimbas, 2 cymbals, tam-tam
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