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Symphonies 

On New World Percussion

Orchestras

The Symphony is a classical musical form which originated in Italy which originally comprised three movements - fast slow and fast. It was taken up in Northern Europe and developed, refined and extended to four movements in the following scheme: 1.    an opening sonata or allegro 2.    a slow movement, such as adagio 3.    a minuet or scherzo with trio 4.    an allegro, rondo, or sonata The word comes from the Greek for harmony and for a fuller technical exposition you might try the Wikipedia Symphony page. But from our point of view the important issue is the musical form and the harmonies not the specific instruments used. Our arrangements are typically simpler because the emulations which we use are capable of performing across a wider range of octaves than the instruments available to the original composers. Some of our instruments such as the wood wind and harp can also deliver greater volume than their physical equivalents.  Obviously we loose some of the tone and colour provided by particular instruments but perhaps the bigger picture becomes clearer.  One of our biggest challenges was the Brass section and for the most part we have resorted to the Vibraphone to cover this.

LV Beethoven

Symphony No 3 The Eroica: Symphony No3:1  Symphony No3:2  Symphony No3:3  Symphony No3:4  Symphony  No 5: Symphony No5:1  Symphony No5:2  Symphony No5:3  Symphony No5:4 

A Dvorak

Eigth Symphony Movements:   8-1 8-2 8-3 8-4  ** Ninth Symphony Movements:  9-1  9-2 (Largo) 9-3 9-4  **

F Schubert

Symphony No 8 in D Minor (The Unfinished) : Movement 1 ** Allegro moderato,  Movement 2 ** Andante con moto Symphony No 9 in C Major (The Great) : Movement 1 **Andante - Allegro ma non troppo

J Sibelius

Second Symphony first movement  All nine Beethoven Symphonies have now been published on this page.