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Little Symphony No. 5 (Milhaud)

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The motivic cell of this movement centers on a stepwise descent from D to A, which then jumps back up to D in an alternating double-dotted sixteenth, followed by a thirty-second note pattern. This motive first appears in the clarinets, but is also repeated in the flute and oboe. This movement also
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of this motif starting on E-sharp is played by the English horn. A similar motif is played between the bassoons, with alternating minor seconds and major seventh intervals instead. This motif is repeated several times throughout the movement, occasionally in fragments and by different instruments.
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forms popular in the neo-baroque revitalization that characterized Milhaud's time. Mawer notes some characteristics common to Milhaud's compositions in his early years that can be applied to the Chamber Symphonies. They include: "chromaticism bordering on atonality, a distinctive jazz-inspired
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All three movements use a motivic cell construction, scalar chromatic motion, and predominantly contrary motion between voices. The form of the piece is more ambiguous, however, since the symphony was written after Milhaud's excursion to Brazil. It displays elements of
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features alternating figures, such as the alternating minor second motif in the oboe, an alternating major third in the second bassoon and a repeating eighth note figure on D in the first bassoon. Both bassoon parts lead into chromatic scalar motion.
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This movement features similar motivic cell construction, but it alternates instead between major thirds, minor thirds and major seconds. After their initial appearance, the cells reappear on different instruments. This creates a
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This movement starts with a motif beginning on G with alternating minor seconds and octaves in the oboe; simultaneously, an
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A recording on the Brilliant Classics label featuring the Luxembourg Radio Orchestra conducted by Milhaud
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Mawer, Deborah (2008-12-01). "Positioning Milhaud's Late Chamber Music: Compositional 'Full Circle'?".
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The symphony consists of three movements with a collective run time of about six minutes:
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modality, and a surprising aleatoric element, bound together by neoclassical aesthetic."
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Chamber Symphony No. 5 is written for an ensemble of ten wind instruments, consisting of
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in 1922. It is his fifth chamber symphony, which is also referred to as the
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Positioning Milhaud's Late Chamber Music: Compositional 'Full Circle'?
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This movement may have been composed in ternary form.
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symphony
Darius Milhaud
Schoenberg
Pierrot Lunaire
Champs-Elysées
a piccolo
flute
oboe
English horn
B-flat clarinet
B-flat bass clarinet
bassoons
horns
baroque musical
inversion
checkerboard
trills
My Happy Life
ISBN
978-0-7145-2957-8
Notes without music: an autobiography
Positioning Milhaud's Late Chamber Music: Compositional 'Full Circle'?
doi
10.2307/25434571
JSTOR
25434571
Darius Milhaud-Chamber Symphony No.5
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