Carcassonne is a city in Southern France, that is fortified, as seen in the picture above, Seeing this, brings one back to medieval times with castles. I'll touch more on this later, but the theme for today's post is France and the beauties therein.
Henri Tomasi was a French composer and conductor. He has written many works for a variety of different instruments. As a brass player, I am familiar with a lot of his music for brass, and on the topic of Brass, here is Henri Tomasi's Fanfares Liturgiques. The score along with the video is below. This work is for a large brass ensemble, with three trumpets, four horns, three trombones, one bass trombone and tuba, along with some percussion parts. This piece was written in 1947 as a part of Tomasi's Opera Don Juan de Mańara. There are four movements, they are titled, Annunciation, Gospel, Apocalypse and Good Friday Procession. This is an exciting piece, with a beautiful trombone solo.
Returning back to Carcassonne, there is a board game called Carcassonne that is an opportunity for players to build their own fortified city images after the city in France. Each player takes turns placing tiles, that they obtain randomly, and when placed, the player may choose to place down either, travelers, farmers, knights or monks, each that earn certain points depending on the tile placed. You only have a limited amount of pieces to play, so use them wisely, and make sure that you claim big slots of land before your opponent, or else you will be left with little land and few points.
I hope you enjoy this work by Henri Tomasi. It truly is beautiful and whether or not you play the game, listen to the piece, it will be worth your time!!
I like the idea, and I feel like the aesthetic of the game in question matches the music well but you might also consider Catan or Risk as well!
ReplyDeleteThis was a really fun piece to listen to! I thought the topic along with the game was an excellent pairing.
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