Cat No. JM70807
Price £56.60
Composer: Mario Burki
Category: TEST PIECES (Major Works)

Grade 4

Duration 8:00

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2 = easy
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5 = difficult
6 = very difficult

My work, the drive to Naefels, consists of three pieces that characterize the trip. The fanfare, the chorale and march stand for world, mind and sword.

The band symbolises the mundane.

Important events in the Middle Ages were signalled with fanfare: to put on and blow off the hunt, announce the king or the beginning of parades.

The journey begins with a signal Fanfare: here Listen, we are here and commemorate the ride!

Then you will hear a quiet, lyrical middle section as a contrast, which encourages you to dream, maybe about the past, maybe the future.

The signal returns, the fanfare ends as it began!

In contrast to this is the chant. It stands for the clergy. A hymn that accompanies the service, which is also part of the ride. A commemoration of the battle of the fallen, who have worked selflessly for the Glarus in battle.

Graceful, pious, quiet probably describes this part of the work the best.

The last part of the composition is the march.

The term is march is one hand, from the French word (marche), but on the other hand an old fashioned word word meaning mark or leave a trail.

A track then also left by the militants, which outnumbered the defeated the Austrian army in 1388. But to this day they marched to the ride, the march or procession is the epitome of the drive to Naefels.

Marching music is as much of our culture as brass music concert or entertaining music today. This ride march also can be used to do just that:

As a march on the parade route, as Marsh, who leads the procession or as a piece, which also carries the drive to Naefels into the wide world!

The symbol of the sword thus stands for the march, for the military and the victory which was achieved at the Näfelser battle.