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Machu Picchu - City in the Sky

The Mystery of the Hidden Sun Temple

Machu Picchu - City in the Sky

Concert Band

Machu Picchu - City in the Sky

The Mystery of the Hidden Sun Temple

Performance time
00:10:54

Grade Level
Höchststufe

Publisher
Brain Music

Size
A3 (Score) + A4 (Parts)

Info
Full Score + Parts

Order Number
ZOMS-A024

Release Date
2005

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Explaining the significance of Machu Picchu begins with remembering the Incan empire at its zenith, and its tragic encounter with the Spanish conquistadors. 378 years later an archeologist from Yale University, Hiram Bingham, rediscovered "Machu Picchu", a glorious mountaintop Incan city that had escaped the attention of the invaders. 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 grand piano, where a priest would "tie the sun to the stone" at winter solstice to insure its seasonal return. Yagisawa describes that magnificent citadel as three principal ideas dominate the piece:
1) the shimmering golden city of Cuzco set in the dramatic scenery of the Andes,
2) the destructiveness of violent invasion, and
3) the re-emergence of Incan glory as the City in the Sky again reached for the sun.

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Keywords

Archaeology

Deity / deities

Latin America

Mountains

South America

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