Harmonielehre: Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)John Adams' "Harmonielehre" is quite the expansive piece of music.Broad, gargantuan brass melodies and chords accompanied by frantic woodwind and string whirling dervishes - it is an enjoyable and mesmerizing experience just listening to it.

The score is just as expansive and very daunting upon first laying eyes upon it.It is rather large, and each page is clear and easy to follow.The major difficulty in the score (which seems to be typical of all John Adams scores) is that the music Adams writes is sometimes so densely packed with notes that it is not always clear as to which instrument has the melody.This, however, is not a complaint.I wouldn't want Adams to write his music in any other way.Another challenging aspect to the score is the various shifts in tempi and time signatures which are quite frequent, and there is an extraordinarily high degree of individual interpretation (where the conductor is concerned).In terms of performance, only a conductor of the highest calibre who knows the ins and outs of such a piece of music could take on this work of enormous breadth and emotion.I love this score.It is an absolute work of genius, and one that I hope to play and/or conduct in the future.

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