Singularity
(2007)
for brass and percussion
duration: 3'
Score (PDF) 1 MB |
Audio (MP3) 2.4 MB |
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Program Notes
Singularity is a fanfare for brass and percussion which uses thematic material from a piece I wrote for chamber orchestra in Spring 2007. That piece, Countermeasure, explored ways in which music could sound, as its title implies, “against the measure” – through prolonged hemiola, insertion of unexpected silence, and repetition of thematic ideas.
During rehearsals for the premiere of Countermeasure, I began to consider a tighter, more succinct presentation of the main orchestral elements, scored for a smaller group of instruments. As I re-worked old material and this new piece came to life, I wanted its title to express the “stretching” and expanding of a single thematic cell. The end result is Singularity: a miniature theme and variations for brass and percussion in fanfare style, which brings the full power of the brass family to bear in its elongation of a single idea.
Performances