Colloque No. 2, op. 11 is currently unavailable

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Piano and organ - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6214 Composed by Jean Guillou. This edition: Sheet music. Score. Op. 11. Duration 22 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6214. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6214). A musical instrument has its own personality, with a voice that can provoke reactions, give rise to dramatic impulses and awaken colours and moods; it is capable of articulating and responding to all life's questions and those of the spirit. When the composer had the idea of bringing together two instruments with the richest range of sounds in the Western musical world, he therefore imagined them answering one another in a passionate and eventfull "colloquy", like two legendary mythological heroes. They are indeed opposed in character, with contrasting voices that cannot match one another in timbre. Their personalities do not blend; they are opposed or superimposed in such a way that their respective frequencies and the release of their energy leads to the creation of a poem, as a story emerges and develops. This "Colloque No. 2" opens with a kind of sigh emitted by the piano and organ in unison: there is a modest and calm regularity to the sound, as though they had decided to walk a little way together. Soon, though, the peace is troubled by a command from the piano. This is followed by a kind of heavy march on the organ, introducing a musical phrase that is to provide the motif for numerous developments and variations. Some of these are rhetorical, some of them dramatic, as the organ and the piano take turns at displaying features that may be menacing, seductive, tender or furious. The culminating moment in this drama is when immense chords are head from the organ over a furious declamation from the piano, with all the brillance of these two instruments combined in a fortissimo. The conclusion takes the form of that same timid and languorous sigh, in the course of which the two protagonists unfurl their lyrical and tender replies. Der französische Komponist Jean Guillou hat eine ganze Reihe von Werken für Orgel plus Instrument komponiert, die alle den Serientitel "Colloques" tragen. Damit ist alles über die Intention der Stücke gesagt: es sind "Zwiegespräche" zwischen Orgel und Soloinstrument, die gleichberechtigt dialogisieren und sich die Bälle zuwerfen. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).