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Autumn morning in Aberfoyle, Scotland

Jean Sibelius - Suite Pélleas et Mélisande

Jean Sibelius - Suite Pélleas et Mélisande, Op 46 - Leif Segerstam

Pelléas et Mélisande, is incidental music in ten parts written in 1905 by Jean Sibelius, for Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 drama Pelléas et Mélisande. Sibelius later on slightly rearranged the music into a nine movement suite, published as Op. 46, which became one of his most popular works for the theater.

Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor.

Movements of the Suite

At the Castle Gate
Mélisande
At the Seashore
A Spring in the Park
The Three Blind Sisters
Pastorale
Mélisande at the Spinning Wheel
Entr'acte
The Death of Mélisande

The opening movement of the suite for orchestra is called "At the Castle Gate." The strings introduce an atmospheric, brief theme, which is then restated with help from the woodwind. This introduction is closed by austere chords. This section is familiar to British television viewers as the theme of the BBC's long-running monthly astronomy programme The Sky At Night, presented by Patrick Moore.
Then the character Mélisande is introduced with characteristically strong material presented by a cor anglais solo. This is succeeded by a brief intermezzo, "At the Seashore," which Sibelius regarded as dispensable in concert performances.
The strings present the dense sonorities of the melodic material of "A Spring in the Park," which is followed by the "Three Blind Sisters," in which another cor anglais solo is answered by monolithic orchestral harmonies.
The sixth movement, "Pastorale," is scored for woodwind and string instruments and exhibits the subtlety of chamber music.
The seventh, "Mélisande at the Spinning Wheel," presents the largest and most dramatic image heard so far, which is followed by an Entracte. This immense movement could serve as a symphonic finale in its own right but the pace of the drama demands an epilogue. With the moving "The Death of Mélisande," the tragic story of the doomed love affair reaches its conclusion.
Sibelius later made a transcription of the suite for solo piano, excluding the 'At the Seashore' movement.


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Toolbox Revisited

Basically, it comes with three sets of sticks, First sentence, non-sequitur, last sentence, which you can shuffle, a three-minute timer, a set of sixth sense cards and four rotating wheels of protagonist, goals, obstacles, and action plus a manual.



Each has a phrase or set of words which you blindly can pick up at random, and as many or few as you want, and from that start writing for three minutes from what is given. These are tools to stop the brain from seizing up and the logical side of the brain saying I cannot do this and let your creative side of the brain flow.

So as you can see, it is a tool of sorts, but I do see a time when all the parts will be used up. and then what - well, the manual suggests cutting out words and phrases from newspapers and magazines and then use them randomly and fit stories around the phrases. Nothing new in that as William Burroughs used that very idea.