Slow processional marches:

 

1-"Path of the Sepulchre"Work composed byAntonio Garcia Rincón in 2007and dedicated to the Holy Recumbent Christ of the SI Cathedral, it is a baroque carving from the 17th century, made by the famous Castilian image maker Gregorio Fernández during his last stage (1631-1636) to which the Parishion of San Andrés accompanies every night of Good Friday in the Procession of the Steps of Segovia. 

The march expresses with sounds what a person feels when seeing this Sacred Image. Death is symbolized in a main melody played by the lowest instruments. The pain of those who loved it the most is found in the second melody played by the middle instruments. He joins the suffering of his mother embodied in the subtle bugle melody that is played in third place. Finally, the obvious mistreatment is symbolized in the strong accents of the tutti of bugles and drums. All this is intertwined until completing a sound image of incredible size.

In 2014, an extended version for music band was premiered in the church of San Miguel, by the band of the Segovian Musical Union, which includes a last part that symbolizes the triumphant return.

 

2-"Tears of the Alcazar" March dedicated to the folkloric roots of the band embodied in the San Romualdo family, roots that inspired the composition of this atypical Easter march, popularly known as "La Jota" for passing at a similar pace to that of the traditional Castilian dance, since it is equivalent to a ternary subdivision. Its author is alsoAntonio Garcia Rinconand it premiered at the exit of the Cristo de la Paciencia in the year2010.

As it could not be otherwise, in the piece the dulzaina and the drum (played in the solo as a Castilian drum) take on special importance and today are played by the successors of the San Romualdo family, who follow the tradition within the band .

 

3-"Christ of Patience"First work composed for the band and one of the most popular. Originally, it was performed by the first lineup of the band in2007, with only six bugles, of which onlyAntonio Garcia Rincon, composer of this march and creator of the wind section, had previous musical notions. 

Dedicated to Santo Cristo de la Paciencia, anonymous carving from the 16th century. The march stands out for having a part to the rhythm of bulerías in which the bearers of the paso perform a "dance" already typical of Segovian Holy Week. Musically, it is based on the marches of military bugle bands with an arpeggiated base and contrasts with the Phrygian sonorities typical of the notes produced by the bugle in do - re flat.


4-"Seven Knives" March dedicated to and inspired by the Virgin of the Seven Knives that is venerated in the church of San Miguel in Segovia, an image for which the author,Antonio Garcia Rincon, feel a special affection. This image, which has been in procession since 1574 with the now-defunct Confalón Brotherhood, shared a large part of the route with which, until now, our Cristo de la Paciencia had taken. It premiered during the procession on Holy Thursday in2008.

Musically it has a palindromic structure that begins with a triumphant part to move on to a much more collected melody that develops until it ends in a solo and duet part. From this point it returns to the main melody ending with the epic part, making a total of seven parts and symbolizing each one of the seven daggers of the Virgin.

 

5-"Jewish quarter" March ofpaul garcia garcia, released in2014during the I Adrián Callejo Rubio Memorial Contest in the Hermitage of Santo Cristo de la Cruz,Christ of the Market.

Its title refers to the history of the neighborhood: The Jewish aljama of Segovia became the largest, most prosperous and most populated of all the Castilian ones, however, after the segregation promoted by Queen Catherine of Lancaster in 1412, the Jews were confined in a large part of the area that is now our neighborhood. A few years later, the desecration of a Sacred Form in the Greater Synagogue led to its conversion into a church with the invocation of Corpus Christi on November 25, 1421, and to the subsequent celebration of "La Catorcena" a festival that continues to this day. and whose name refers to each of the then fourteen parishes in which it began to be celebrated. At that time the decline of these faithful began until their complete expulsion by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492.
 
As for the march, it has a curious origin: After an afternoon of bullfighting by the composer at the Salamanca Fair alongside the music band, a friend suggested that he play a pasodoble on the piano, and the idea became this march, a paso doble that was originally thought to be paraded in parades through the neighborhood, hence the name, and which ended up being part of the band's repertoire.


6-"Virgin of Help" March premiered at the Juan Bravo Theater during the inaugural contest of Holy Week of the year2012, it was the first march ofpaul garcia garciawhich the band performed. Its greater complexity with respect to previous marches meant a great musical leap for the group.
 
It is dedicated to the Sacred Image of the Virgen del Socorro, located in the inner chamber of the Puerta de San Andrés in the Segovian wall, a Virgin who also gives its name to the door and this emblematic square of the neighborhood. As a historical fact, the carving was moved to its current location many years ago after the disappearance of the Atenzana Hospital, then located on the current Calle Juan Bravo in the middle of Calle Real, where it was venerated under the invocation of "Perpetual Help".

As a curiosity, it is not surprising to see a Virgin presiding over a door in a wall, since they were placed in the past as protection against enemy attacks and also against diseases such as the plague, therefore its current location was perfect for the Virgen del Socorro, to which as a novelty in the Via Crucis of the Parishion on the night of Holy Wednesday 2023 this piece was performed in situ for the first time. 

 

7-"Varales"March work ofAntonio Garcia Rinconpremiered at the Teatro Juan Bravo during the inaugural contest of Holy Week of the year2012, is dedicated to the bearers of the Holy Christ of Patience. 

It receives a lot of influence from the popular “costalero” march by Ángel Jesús and José María Sánchez Berenguer, but transferred to the Castilian area where the steps carried on a litter with the poles as a prominent element predominate. 

When the poles sound in the narrow streets of our neighborhood, it is tremendously overwhelming, the sixteen brave men who carry the Holy Christ, despite the fatigue and pain in their shoulders, put a little more of their part and rock it from side to side with movements abrupt to the sound of the accents contained in this march.

 

8-"Torch"The last contribution ofAntonio Garcia Rinconto the repertoire of the band El Cirineo. A descriptive work that premieres in the year2023,at the concert of the Band on the occasion of the fundraising launched by the Board of Parishioners to renew the procession of the Holy Reclining Christ, in which reference is made to one of the most characteristic elements in our processions: fire .

Musically it is one of the most complex pieces in the repertoire, not only because of the difficulty in interpretation, but also because of the different modulations it contains and which create very unusual acoustic effects in marches for bugle and drum bands.

The march begins with a rhythm and a melody that transport us to times where light only came from fire. Then comes the duet of bugles that begins to introduce us to that fight that the flames have writhing and that ends in a melody that grows with an increasingly intense crackle until it goes out. But the light always comes back and almost always with more force, in this case with a final melody that reminds us that after the storm comes calm, after night comes day and as we remember Easter, after death comes the glorious Resurrection.

 

9-"Servitas of San Andrés"ofPablo Garcia Garcia opens in the year2023in the same concert as "Antorcha" and its name refers to the Congregation of the Tertiaries of the Servants of Mary Most Holy or "Servitas", which had its headquarters in the parish of San Andrés from 1667 until its disappearance at the beginning of the 20th century .
 
It is dedicated to Our Lady of Mercy, who presides over the main altarpiece of the Temple, the work of the sculptor José de Ratés y Dalmau; Carved in 1672, it has been the main image of the Servites ever since, an importance that attests to its placement in the center of the main altarpiece over the tabernacle or tabernacle.
 
Musically, after the initial solemnity of the bell and the percussion, the different instruments and voices are progressively incorporated until reaching the chorus where up to 12 different voices, in addition to the percussion, intervene at the same time answering each other with the themes previously introduced.  

This structure was introduced by Rossini in romanticism and stands out for its crescendo, which generates a progressive tension until its resolution.

In turn, the anomalous harmonic descents in contrast to the crescendo of the themes, provide a great singularity to this march, including modulations between major tones (with a happier sound) and minor tones (which give a sensation of sadness) as well. anomalous among the compositions for this type of bands. All this generates great complexity when it comes to coordinating all the themes, a very "baroque" difficulty, as baroque is the Image of La Piedad on which it is inspired.

 

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10-"The Cyrenean" March ofAntonio Garcia Rinconcomposed for the original band in2007. The march refers to the prayer that is sung when the fifth station of the exercise of the Via Crucis is prayed, and which also gives its name to the Parish Band. This scene, the fifth station of the Via Crucis, represents a moment of Jesus' journey to Calvary. With the exception of Saint John, the evangelists agree in mentioning the fact that a man named Simon, a native of Cyrene, was forced to help Jesus carry the cross.

 

11-"Royal March"It is interpreted with arrangements ofPablo Garcia Garcia. 

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Processional marches in double or ordinary step:

 

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12-"Sound of Neighborhood" deAntonio Garcia Rinconcomposed for the Band in the year 2008. 

 

13-"Canonries"by Pablo Garcia Garciacomposed for the Band in the year 2012. 

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A version of"The Cyrene"as well as the marches"Jewry"and"Thetears of the Alcazar".