Jacob de Haan: Oregon

This fantasy tells the story of Oregon, one of America's north-western states. Traveling by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad, the listener is taken through the fascinating Oregon landscape. Indians, cowboys, gold diggers, and covered wagons will file past on this adventurous journey. The piece has some similarities with a movie soundtrack. Various melodies, which could be the main themes of a movie, pass the review. The piece begins in a slow movement, introducing the first theme in minor. Then, in the following fast movement, we hear the trombones imitate the train, whistling the steam-flute. We hear the characteristic minor theme again, but now in different variants (also in major). The rhythmic structures of western style and rock succeed each other. This leads to the slow movement, where the signals of horns and trumpets introduce a wonderful vocal melody. After this characteristic melody, the fast movement appears shortly again, the trombones whistling the steam-flute again (now in major). We also hear some musical elements that play a part in the following Presto. Bar changes, jazzy chords, interesting rhythmic patterns (with bongo), and an original theme are the characteristics of this Presto. After this, the horns announce the last section of the piece. Interesting is the fact that we hear in this Allegro section a variant of the vocal melody in the slow movement. The Presto theme also returns shortly, followed by the Allargando, which is a grand characteristic end of a soundtrack. The movie of our traveling fantasy has come to an end.

Merk	De Haske Publications
Serie	Top 100 Harmony
Instrument	Harmony
Barcode (EAN)	DHP-0890139-010_1.mp3