Doggerland - Robert Theeuwen

Doggerland, the “Atlantis of the North Sea,” was a vast area of land between England and continental Europe. This lost landscape was inhabited by humans for almost a million years, with Neanderthals living there as far back as 450,000 years ago. During the last Ice Age, which ended around 11,000 years ago, Doggerland was a landscape crossed by numerous rivers. Because the climate was relatively mild, it was home to many animals, including mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, horses, and reindeer. Smaller animals also inhabited the region. As the land became increasingly marshy after the Ice Age, the larger animals gradually disappeared. Around 8,000 years ago, climate change—the 8.2-kiloyear event—brought an end to the paradise of Doggerland. Sea levels rose by approximately 50 metres, causing most of Doggerland to disappear beneath the water. The Storegga submarine landslide off the coast of Norway, around 6150 BC, triggered a tsunami that swept away the final remnants of Doggerland. The concert work Doggerland evokes the atmospheres of this Mesolithic landscape, where humans and animals lived together in all their diversity, while also portraying the sense of an immense and desolate plain. The entire work is based exclusively on **enneatonic and hexatonic scales**. In the closing section of the work, the birth of the North Sea can be heard in the form of a grand chorale, in which descending hexatonic and enneatonic scales form the underlying musical structures. Doggerland is available for Concertband and Fanfare Band: https://ammusic.nl/nl/concert-concours/734...