The Divine Comedy

[@elenacalabuig8770]

Inferno reminds me of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

[@vermilleontoastr]

First Trombone. So much fun! A true challenge for any low brass player, this song.

[@TheRandomAsian711]

We're playing Inferno and Purgatorio in the CJMEA band festival and I'm super hype. Anybody else going to be there?

[@Gabriel_LlG]

It's the name of an epic poem by Dante. Dante called it the Divine Comedy because poems were referred as high (tragedy) or low (comedy). High literature included were written in a formal dialect with typically bad endings. Low literature were written in everyday dialect with typical good endings. Dante (The author) wrote it in everyday language and it was originally called Commedia, but it was later Christianized. Dante (The character) ends up in heaven, making it a good ending making it comedy.

[@michelpillot6213]

J'ai interprété cette oeuvre avec un orchestre d'harmonie.C'était un énorme plaisir !

[@sumwonyumayno9787]

I love this piece, we just played parts of it tonight, and it was fantastic!

[@harriotlovesyou4334]

love those extra 2 minutes of silence at the end

[@WatergirlK14]

For those asking who's playing this, this is the official recording of the The Divine Comedy. Just with different effects on it.

[@RvBAfras]

French horn heaven.

[@mychemcutie723]

My school's wind ensemble is playing the whole symphony. I play the first clarinet, and it's so tough with all of the fast moving notes.

[@corallopez7573]

Played the entire thing with my wind ensemble it was great

[@ebgbees]

We're playing this in our wind ensemble this year in full and I'm super stoked!

[@liferus8617]

Hey I am in high school and we are playing the whole entire inferno movement we've made it to paradise and it only took us a month to clean the first 3 movements out.(bass trombone 2nd chair.

[@nicholashoover8886]

Awesome love Robert w smith

[@cj1lorenz]

So after high school i wanted to do band still in college. My parents made me take a year off to get adjusted to college life. My school's wind ensemble played the whole Divine Comedy.....im mad at my parents LOL!

[@dontbemessinboy]

Quality over quantity, dude

[@calvindreesman4951]

+Garrett Tageant quantity has it's own quality

[@satxfreddy]

Horns finally have an meaning in music pieces!

[@LostHeroOfTime333]

I am this in my marching band this year

[@jordaneffinger2104]

BITNABITaccount, The lyrics sound like part of the "Dies Irae", but I could be wrong. It makes sense that the Dies Irae is in The Divine Comedy

[@ray25lee]

Helpful.

[@hunterhancock7007]

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[@BITNABITaccount]

Holy shit there's lyrics! I love this orchestral version!

[@humordecor8358]

Lendo e ouvindo ( #_@)

[@1o0fos3E]

it has a good ending so its a comedy as opposed to a tragedy

[@camred123]

Try Euphonium as well. :3

[@obiworm99]

My school band almost did the inferno, but we don't have an oboe. :(

[@jbirenbaum888]

pretty lame band then

[@jaegerwolfe6365]

Jeni Birenbaum Not every band can have an oboe. That doesn't make them lame. If they were going to play inferno, then I give them props. Its a super hard piece of literature to read.

[@Jordyn0725]

we didn't have an oboe so our band director turned it into an alto sax part :)

[@jaegerwolfe6365]

Thats awesome!

[@popz4470]

our varsity ensemble played the whole thing and used a soprano sax for the oboe parts, and it sounded great cuz our band was beast af, (Tempe high school in AZ)

[@javrami4883]

okay who the hell thought it would be okay to open that squeaky ass door at 11:59

[@liferus8617]

Dude it supposed to be like him opening the door to his hell in this song and the door is actually chains

[@ray25lee]

Damn, they upped the tempo to mega-ultra light-speed (which is probably the tempo it's intended to be played at...). Jeez, who performed this?

[@kaylakephart1733]

I'm doing this entire arrangement this year for high school...does anyone know if the clarinet piece is easy?

[@TheRandomAsian711]

Sorry, it's not easy :P Unless you happen to be quite good, it'll be a challenge to get it up to tempo (172 bpm). I play flute so I understand the struggle, although the double-tonguing is usually a bigger problem on the clary, so I'm told. Are you in wind ensemble (or the advanced version of band at your school) or concert band?

[@kaylakephart1733]

Han Tran We actually don't have an advanced version of band. If you sign up for band, you have to struggle as one. 😅 We just got Inferno Monday and it's not terrible, but the key signature isn't the easiest. And yeah the tonguing sucks.

[@AtomicExplosion95695]

I think they might have the same chord progression.

[@Pacheconator122]

@Logan Jahnke What recording is this?

[@maczobam]

Who performs this version?

[@SurroundedByCastles]

Try Timpani ;)

[@LJIncorporated]

I'm sorry, but I do not know.

[@LJIncorporated]

I'm sorry, but I do not know.