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Blue Bulerías
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General Info
Year: 2012
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Blue Bulerías, by composer and arranger Master Sgt. John Bliss, derives its name from the fusion of styles it portrays: the bulerías form common in the flamenco guitar genre, and the “blues” familiar in American popular music. Bliss says the following about his piece:
“Throughout the piece, these influences are combined melodically (intruding ‘blue notes’), harmonically (the Spanish Phrygian progression superimposed on the blues form), rhythmically (syncopation, overlapping note groupings) and through the orchestration (the jazz associations of the vibraphone). For economy’s sake, the three mallet instruments are shared by multiple players and at times played simultaneously from opposite sides of the instrument. Some gestures employed are imitative of characteristic guitar or keyboard writing, while others are purely idiomatic to percussion. The piece also pays occasional homage to the five performers in the percussion quintet, by the use of pentatonic scales, five mallets (per player) and five-note phrases.”
-Program note by MSgt Brooke Emery
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- United States Air Force Band Percussion – 19 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Resources
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