Machu Picchu
Grade 4
© 2012, GIA Publications, Inc
Item #: B-B06412 Status: Available
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Description:
This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work
Machu Picchu was commissioned for the thirtieth anniversary concert of the Liberte Wind Orchestra, Kawaguchi City, Japan. The work is one in a series of musical pieces for winds composed by Yagisawa with the theme of ancient ruins. Machu Picchu is a mountaintop Incan city discovered 378 years after the Spanish conquistadors invaded and destroyed Cuzco. At the central high point of the city stands its most important shrine, the intihuatana, or “hitching post of the sun,” a column of stone rising from a block of granite the size of a modern grand piano, where a priest would “tie the sun to the stone” at winter solstice to ensure its seasonal return. Scholars believe that the royal lineage of the empire may have escaped to Machu Picchu during the Spanish invasion.
Machu Picchu is a single-movement work for winds that is based on a slightly modified arch form; it is programmatic in nature. The piece is about eleven minutes, and it is published by Bravo Music.
Format: ZIP