The work is included in the “Golden Dolden Box Set” available under the “merchandise” tab. As per the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, Joshua led the people of Israel to Jericho and marched around the city walls once. Here is a recent interpretation of the Walls cycle I like:ĥ/1/remixed-remastered-revised-reissued-paul-dolden/?fbclid=IwAR0-jHc2sgWZFD-xIcdxvlVn8obPzJWUlm8KIqVD2O7sLNxFp4YQE64UTfoĪnother interpretation I would suggest is that the Walls Cycle has more to do with terrifying aspect of the sublime, which are beautiful in their sheer power and size, and the wonder of things larger than our small unimportant lives. Perhaps scientists no longer have any sense of aesthetic perception. I know many of my listeners would have the opposite responses to Dolden and Mozart. 1 The walls of Jericho fell down, As Israels host marched boldly round, Led on by thrilling trumpets sound, And evrybody shouted. The Walls of Jericho serves as an addition to the Skyline Wildlife Management Area, which is site 41 on the Northeast Loop of the North Alabama Birding Trail. In one of the studies Mozart, by contrast, was used to induce pleasure. The work has been used twice in science experiments to create an atmosphere of pain. No work of mine has created so much anger and hostility from people. The tract of land generally referred to as Walls of Jericho is over 25,000 acres in extreme northern Jackson County, Alabama and Franklin County, Tennessee. The score with program notes can be viewed here: /en/partition/8049/Paul_Dolden/Below_the_Walls_of_Jericho/Listening_Transcription I have already uploaded the third movement called “Beyond the Walls of Jericho.” This first part, was intended to portray the actual knocking down of the Walls of Jericho, therefore massed textures of 400 to 800 tracks of acoustic instruments are assembled for this sonic attack. This is thousands of years before the nascent civilisations of Babylon and Egypt built similar fortifications and thousands of years before organised warfare made such walls useful for defence. “Below the Walls of Jericho” is the first work in a trilogy of works I called the “Walls Cycle”. The walls of old Jericho have been dated to around 8000bc.

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