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► Gamelan Serenade


15. Macht hoch die Tür, die Tor macht weit
(Lyrics: Georg Weissel, 1590 − 1635,
melody: Halle, 1704)

This adaptation is about opening up and moving through tonal spaces.

This is quite audible at the beginning of the two-voice composition, when the melody is accompanied by the lower voice, moving expansively across several octaves.

However the melody itself wanders from its initial upper-voice position through fragmentation and distribution between the two voices until it reaches the lower voice one octave below.

Following a free variation in a different meter it finally re-emerges one octave higher than at the outset.