Four: On a Remix of Beethoven

Randall D. Standridge

Grade 4

Concert Band Score and Parts

Taking Beethoven’s four note “fate” motive from the first movement of his fifth symphony, composer Standridge has re-imagined the symphony movement and taken it in remarkable new directions.  At first following close to the original for a powerful and exciting introduction, the work then segues into a playful gigue in compound meter, followed by a lyrical section with the primary motive presented upside down in horns, much in the spirit of Beethoven’s original.  The final section turns up the excitement meter in a 7/8 dance section that caps off this remarkable new take on Beethoven’s Fifth with a bang!

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