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Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

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111: 500: 249:, with the anticipatory drumroll emulated by the flutes after he has reached the top. The D clarinet wails in a distortion of the first theme, signifying his death scream as the drop begins, and a pizzicato by the strings represents the snapping of his neck as the noose rope reaches full extension. After a moment of silence, the "once upon a time" theme heard at the beginning returns, suggesting that someone like Till can never be destroyed, and the work ends with one last quotation of the musical joke. 767: 1697: 190: 1707: 744: 33: 220: 1733: 1534: 1009: 958: 927: 912: 897: 882: 867: 245:. Till has been captured by the authorities, and is sentenced to death for blasphemy. The funeral march of the headsman begins a dialogue with the desperate Till, who tries to wheedle and joke his way out of this predicament. Unfortunately, he has no effect on the stony executioner, who hangs him. The progress of Till being hauled up the gallows is graphically painted by the 168: 130: 237:
The music follows Till throughout the countryside, as he rides a horse through a market, upsetting the goods and wares, pokes fun at the strict Teutonic clergy (represented by the violas), flirts with and chases girls (the love theme is given to the first violins), and mocks the serious academics
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The music suggesting a horse ride returns again, with the first theme restated all over the orchestra. The climax abruptly changes to a
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orchestra repeating two notes. The clarinet theme is heard next, suggesting Till's laughter as he plots his next prank.
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form (which Strauss spelled in its French form, rondeau), and this beginning section concludes with the
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The work chronicles the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero, prankster
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Although the original score calls for a clarinet in D, the part is usually played on an E
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Leonard Bernstein Discusses Humor in Music and Conducts Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
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There also exists a version for piano four-hands, which has been recorded by
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Strauss indicates four extra horns and three extra trumpets to be added
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as a solo horn bursts in with two repetitions of the first Till theme.
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Divertimento for chamber orchestra after keyboard pieces by Couperin
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The theme is taken by the rest of the orchestra in a
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Op.
tone poem
Richard Strauss
Arthur Seidl
Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
Franz Wüllner
Till Eulenspiegel
horn
D clarinet
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
United States Navy Band
media help
Once upon a time
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rondo
tutti
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funeral march
D clarinet
Woodwinds
piccolo
flutes
oboes
English horn
clarinets in B
D clarinet

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