"Symphony No. 5 - Full Score" Sheet Music by Xilin Wang

Wang Xilin’s Symphony No. 5 is a 27-minute continuous piece consisting of three distinct parts: Adagio, Allegro and Adagio. First part: Adagio. The impressive introduction creates a sense of novelty and gives new and fresh feelings to the audience. It is because in a 1-bar motif, in other words a very short phrase which is short but artistic and expressive, 12 violins play the same single note in unison (a traditional melodic style) and 12 semitones separately (a modern music style). The flexible and unexpected integration leads to flexible alternation of single notes and clusters of chords, change of forte and piano and unexpected alternation of pure melody and expanded chords. The music is sometimes gentle but sometimes shrill. Under this distinctive sound background, the solo cello plays a long melody line characterized by major seconds and tritones. This ‘indignant and oppressive string orchestra and dark cello monologue’ (words of the composer) has precisely expressed feelings of yearning. The music is then extended progressively by viola and cello. Bar 44 is the completion of the first theme. Another expressive and warm theme starts from bar 45. It enters without notice and develops with increasing layers. Regarding musical richness and musical intensity, almost 40 bars from bars 45 to 82 progressively turn to a fervid sound, and reach the first climax in the uninterrupted intensity. It suddenly calms down and stays in the high-pitch register. The profound requiem seems to float to the high sky. But the music goes straightly to the next vivid movement. Second part: Allegro. This movement starts from bars 83 to 325 including the climax in the last part of whole work. This movement, about three-fifths length of the whole piece, is the core part of the piece. It is like a very long ‘development’. The composer has fully elaborated to the largest potential of the characteristics and structure of his favorite long-breathed symphonic style so that this lengthened dev