Colloque No. 5, op. 19 is currently unavailable

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Piano and organ - intermediate to advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q6217 Composed by Jean Guillou. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Op. 19. Duration 16 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q6217. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q6217). Colloque, colloquy or symposium, is a term used in reference to Erasmus, but of course also to Plato and, closer to us, Paul Valéry. In this piece, instead of characters who speak to each other, there are instruments that confront each other. Because of this reason the six "colloques" written until today are using quite unhabitual instruments. Four of them use instruments as diverse as the piano, the organ and percussion: so many contradictory personages, each with its own character, firmly setting forth their ideas, though having some influence on each other as well. The piano for example communicates its percussive force to the organ and the organ lends the piano its penetrating and pliable gentleness, as well as its breadth of sound. In this Colloque no. 5 the piano and organ, almost on tiptoes, enter together but unbeknown to each other, hesitantly, softly, like two people looking for each other and at the same time avoiding each other and commenting on each other's propositions or assertions, the whole interspersed with vigorous and sometimes contradictory episodes. FInally, a brilliant, lively pantomine brings them together before the opening figure suddenly returns. The pantomime reappears to form the conclusion to these confrontations and rhetorical jousts. 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).