"haziness" - 1 õppematerjal

ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.

depicts a grotesque picture. Bustle and rustling everywhere, the composer looks on with a humorous smirk. Thereafter he lets in rough and menacing force (trombone). Example 103. At the beginning of the third movement a heavy stamping of timpani starts and it generates a feeling of fatality. Example 104. An atmosphere of mourning: strings begin with tapping followed by a desperate crackle. Trumpets and trombones are protesting. All of it is but grey haziness, pressure and pain. A clear, melodious thought unexpectedly permeates through the chaos. In the following Poco meno, a piano piece for children, The Sweet Dream by Tchaikovsky is heard. The childish serene thought stands as an ideal and counterbalance to the previous bellicose gloom. The former wins. The lack of fixed themes, brutality, harshness and anxiety as rendered by several images realise Pärt’s conception. There is an abundance of so-called background music