The Race in Siena (Traveler Series no.10)

This is a description of what happened when I visited Siena in Italy in 2003. After many years, I reminisced about the situation with the audio and video I shot at the time. Therefore, the band's playing tunes appearing in the song actually reflect the performance at that time.

It was a very noisy scene. The peaceful old city was usually full of flags from various districts and tourists were everywhere on the streets. The game was held in IL Campo, because there were so many people in the field and there were too many people in it, and there were often pushes. This is a shocking scene I have never encountered in my life.

Before the competition, the teams from various districts wore traditional costumes from the Middle Ages, knocked on the gongs, and danced the parade around the field, which was even more amazing. After the parade, the band sounded and the crowd's emotions began to rise. Then the chief gave a speech and introduced the contestants. These knights all appeared in traditional costumes representing the districts. The crowd was already impatient. After a short and strange silence, suddenly, the gunshot rang and ran away!

Someone cheered and some protested the knight who ran to the finish line, because before the start, the knights and the horse pushed each other, and everyone had to grab a favorable position. So there were many disputes after the game and it was fierce. However, the game was always over, the band sounded the finale, and the crowd had to play slowly, and gradually left, the ancient city returned to the usual tranquility.

When composing, it is mainly to describe the real situation as much as possible, and use a semi-abstract way to present the noisy and disciplined scene. At the beginning of the music, an Italian folk song that makes it easy to identify its location was adopted, and its fragments were successively appeared in the pedestrian's motivation to walk around. This pedestrian motivation dominated the entire music until the end.