Equale
File:Beethoven 3 Equali WoO 30, published Breitkopf und Härtel, Leipzig, 1888.pdf
An equale is a composition of music for several instruments of the same type.[1][2] Most of the time, they are short festive pieces. Most of them were written to be played at funerals,[3] or at days where the dead are remembered, such as All Souls' Day.[4] The instrument commonly used is the trombone. Among the best known are probably Drei Equale für vier Posaunen WoO 30, by Ludwig van Beethoven (composed 1812), and 2 Aequale für 3 Posaunen by Anton Bruckner, composed 1847.
Equale Media
Beethoven's funeral procession, led by a processional cross and four trombonists and sixteen singers performing Seyfried's voice arrangement of his Equali
Trombones announcing a death from the belfry and playing at a Moravian funeral in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1874
References
- ↑ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980). London: Macmillan. p. 218, volume 6. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
- ↑ Brown, Maurice J. E.. Equale. Grove Music OnlineOxford Music Online. Accessed August 2011. (subscription needed)
- ↑ Beethoven: Three Equali for Four Trombones, WoO 30 │ An die ferne Geliebte, Opus 98 │ Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Opus 60 Archived 2016-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Program notes, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
- ↑ From sleevenotes, Triton Trombone Quartet: "German Trombone Music"; BIS-CD-644
