I'm calling this a "Concerto" because the cello is the featured player against the orchestra, and "Fantasia" because it seems appropriate: many sweeping melodic themes, no discernable structure, and not part of a larger work

 Produced for the Composer Contests Facebook group Melody challenge -- all the melodies consist of six notes: C, C#, Eb, F#, G, and A.

Painting by Paul Gauguin.

Concerto Fantasia On Six Notes for Cello and Orchestra

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Inside a secluded house deep in an enchanted forest, a clock chimes the late hour. A grizzled old witch appears from the darkness. She begins her wicked work, casting various spells, conjuring up ghosts, phantoms, and demons. Some are harmless, graceful, and elegant specters. Others are monstrous, and dangerous evil spirits to carry out her bidding. She then mischievously begins to craft a potion. Dancing around her boiling cauldron with absolute delight, the witch is elated at the completion of her perilous creations.

Phantasmagoria

Allemande Suite Française BWV 816 N°5.wav

First movement of Creation, suite for orchestra and chorus. Space echoes flat and dark, then come six consonants: yod heh yod, alef vav resh, the first words, "Let there be light." The first theme is a musical cryptogram of those Hebrew consonants. Light is separated from darkness. By the end, everything is vibrating, and light breaks forth.

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the breath of God was fluttering over the surface of the waters, then God said, "Let there be light!" and there was light.

Day 1 - Let there Be Light

I. Let there Be Light

The third day of creation sees the primordeal oceans recede and dry land appear. "The deep" is personified by a seven-headed chaos dragon called Leviathan, and the dry land by a lumbering ox-like creature named Behemoth. Yahweh defeats Leviathan, and brings forth Behemoth, who lies down for a long sleep and plants grow out of his back.

See:
	* Job 40:15-24
	* Job 41:1-34
	* Gen 1:9-13

In two parts: Leviathan, then Behemoth.

* Leviathan is the sea. Chaos. Leviathan rises from the sea, horror. Leviathan's theme: Descending diminished fifths, in unsettled 7/4 time. 
* The choir, that is, the Sons of God, sing the battle between God and Leviathan, the Chaos monster in the sea. 
* Text: Latin Vulgate Job 41:5a; 40:27 — "Portas vultus ejus quis aperiet? Pone super eum manum tuam; memento belli, nec ultra addas loqui."
* English version:  41:14a; 41:8 English - Who can open the vault of his jaw? Put your hand upon him, remember the battle and speak of it no more!
* Leviathan slinks away, into the depths, beaten back. He is mastered.
* The sea retreats and the dry land rises. Whole tone ascending figures.
* Behemoth is the land, and the forerunner of all land beasts to come. His theme is ponderous and strong. Brass choir. Gigantic.
* Behemoth lies down to rest, in the shadows. Choir of angels sings him a lullaby: "ipse principium est viarum Dei" (he is the greatest of God's creatures) and "sub umbra dormit in secreto calami" (Under the shadows he sleeps, under the cover of reeds) from Job  40:14a and 16a (Vulgate).
* In the end, Leviathan is vanquished, and Behemoth lies down for an aeons-long nap so green plants can grow out of his back.

III. Leviathan And Behemoth

A droning A note cuts across the middle of two themes, one a slow and one faster. Soon, the two themes are forcibly separated by a sforzando note, pushing the fast (heavenly) theme above the drone, and the slower (earthly) theme below.

Genesis 1:6-8 -- And God said, Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water. 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse sky. And there was evening, and there was morning - the second day.

Text: "dividat aquas ab aquis" (let us separate waters from waters) "caelo desuper" (heaven above) "terra deorsum" (earth below).

Day 2 - Separation Of The Waters

II. Separation Of The Waters

Benjamin Andrew Turlik (b.1997- ) is an artist and composer mainly in the classical genre. His works are instrumental, and they range from short solo piano pieces to large full scale orchestral compositions.

Phantasmagoria

Benjamin Turlik

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