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Title	Abracadabra
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Contemporary Wind Music (1945-present)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
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Price	194.12 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Ticheli, Frank
Difficulty level	3
Evaluation level of countries	A2 (Austrian B level); DJ (Österreichische Jugend-Literaturdatenbank)
Duration	4:30
Additional info/contents	Abracadabra was composed in the summer of 2004, and was orchestrated the following November during a residency at the McDowell Colony. The piece is dedicated to my son, and is once playful and serious, innocent and mischievous. A sense of mystery pervades as the dark key of G minor is balanced by sudden shifts to bright and sunny major keys. Throughout the composition I was thinking about magic, not in an evil or frightening sense, but as a source of fun and fantasy. My wonderfully playful, sometimes mischivous young son was always in the back of mind, as were images of Halloween with its costumes and jack-o'-laterns. As the piece nears its conclusion, the music rushes toward what seems to be an explosive finish. But the woodwinds interrupt, fanning out to a questioning whole-tone cluster. They are answered by a puff of sound, a final disappearing act. In strictly musical terms, the piece is a clear an example of musical economy as anything I've composed. Almost everything is derived from the opening bars of the main theme. Indeed, virtually every note can be tracted to the main melody or its accompaniment. Because of this heightened sense of unity, I had to choose other ways to achieve musical variety. The most important solution was through the sudden and frequent shifts of mood, mode, and tonality. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 Fag 1,2 Clr 1,2,3 BClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Trp 1,2,3 Hrn in F 1,2 Trb 1,2 Brt Euph Tuba Tmp Perc: -BD -SuCym -SD -Slst -Tmbl -TmTm -Trng -Vsl -Xyl
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	Format	EUR
	Abracadabra (concert/wind band), full score and parts	194.12
	Abracadabra (concert/wind band), full score	29.41

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