John Brakstad

Conclusions - A Trilogy for Band

Conclusions' is inspired by three of the worlds greatest astronomers; their lifes, work and pioneering conclusions.

1: COPERNICUS.
Nicolaus Copernicus lived in the 15th century. He introduced the idea that the planets rotate around the Sun rather than the Earth. This was a new and controversial world view which was not accepted in his lifetime.

2: GALILEO.
Galileo Galilei lived about a hundred years later and is sometimes called 'the father of modern science'. He is credited with the discovery of Jupiter's four largest moons. His discoveries supported Copernicus' model of the Solar System, and also showed that objects rotate around other planets than the Earth.
Galilei was charged with heresy, and had to recant his claim that the Earth revolved around the Sun. 'And yet it does move', he is supposed to have said.

3: NEWTON.
Isaac Newton is known for his theory about the law of gravity and how it affects motion. This theory enabled him to accurately calculate the paths of the planets in the Solar System, and was a third conclusion in the astronomical tradition.
In the same way that the three astronomers' independent conclusions build on ideas that are common to all three, 'Conclusions' is built up of three independent movements which all include references to each other (melodic, harmonic, inversions etc.)