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Instrumentation
 
1 piccolo
2 flutes
Eb Clarinet
Clarinet I, II & III
2 oboes
2 bassoons
2 alto sax
2 tenor sax Baritone sax
4 F Horns (parts in F & Eb)
4 Bb Trumpets
3 Trombones (parts in C & Bb)
Euphonium (parts in Bb T.C. & C B.C.)
Tuba (parts in C B.C., Eb T.C. & Bb T.C.)
Piano
4 percussionist (1 timpani)
Double bass
 
Program Notes
 
I. The Obsession
II. The Shadows Of The Soul
III. The Parade Of The Crazies
 
The work consists of three movements that are intended to be contrasting in texture, tempo, timbre, etc. almost like a "Concerto for band" in which both sections and soloists of all strings as well as the ensemble are exploited.
 
The first movement is built on an obsessive background in its first section interrupted by almost random beats that lead into a second section that is articulated on short motives that are also repeated in an obsessive way and that ends by going to the bass, suddenly giving rise to the second movement.
 
The second movement will maintain a pedal on which slow and dark melodies with echoes and resonances are erecting a mass that explodes breaking the pedal note in a tutti that leads to the opposite end of the register, where painful melodies are accompanied by distant sounds that are muffled.
 
The third movement is a wild march, in which grotesque melodies, sometimes almost deformed, give way to each other, as in a parade of madmen, to give way to a finale in which all join in unison with outrage.