Scherzo, Op. 83
by
Louie Madrid Calleja
Ensemble: Concert Band
Duration: 04:30
Year of Composition: 2006
Publisher: self-published
Available: Yes
How to Acquire: Composer
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Program Notes:
Scherzo – “joke”(as in the scoffing sarcastic type, not the jovial).
It is an exploration of aggression that remains unspoken and intensifies over time as a result of clinging to a series of ideas and views that is contrary to how ultimate reality is. The piece can be viewed as the physical manifestation of that aggression or as images created by papañca (Pali, “mental proliferation").
Its structure is a fugato in fantasia form and is unified by two ideas – an ascending eighth-note motif of the opening fanfare and the first three notes of the fugato subject.
(program note by Louie Madrid Calleja)
