Burning Music
Subtitle: For Chamber Ensemble
General Info
Year: 2011
Duration: c.10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Blue Jay Way Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute (doubling Piccolo)
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
E-flat Alto Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone (doubling Soprano Saxophone)
C Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone I-II-III
Piano
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II, including:
- Bass Drum
- Glockenspiel
- Marimba
- Suspended Cymbals (2: small and large)
- Tam-tam (large)
- Temple Blocks (5)
- Tenor Drum
- Tom-toms (5)
- Triangles (2: high and low)
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Wind Chimes
Violin I-II
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Burning Music is, as suggested by its title, a piece that paints a picture of the consuming power of fire. Fire is one of the most terrifying and destructive forces in nature, yet humans are able to harness it in order to provide light, heat, and the ability to cook food.
In addition to the fire imagery presented in the music, there are several direct allusions to pieces by other composers who also wrote pieces dealing with the nature of fire. One may hear references to the Ritual Fire Dance from Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo as well as several overt references to Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- The Hartt School Foot in the Door and 20/20 Ensembles (Hartford, Conn.) (Glen Adsit, conductor) – 25 March 2011 (CBDNA 2011 National Conference, Seattle, Wash.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Agua Nocturna (2010)
- And Can It Be (2009)
- Black Bolt! (2012)
- Blues for a Squirrel in the Rain (2019)
- Bock Fanfares (2013)
- Burning Music (2011)
- Chamber Concerto No. 1 (2012)
- Concertino Caboclo (2012)
- Dancefares (2016)
- Deep Calls to Deep (2016)
- The Exultant Heart (2016)
- Ford's Machine (2011)
- The Grand Processional of Our Reptilian Overlords (2019)
- He Who Would Valiant Be (2010)
- Heavy Weather (2012)
- I Know Moonrise (2019)
- If I Am to Leave... See: Symphony No. 1
- In Light, Accessible... (2015)
- The King of Love, My Shepherd Is (2004)
- Last Dances of Prospero (2009)
- Light Beyond Shadow (as arranger) (2020/2022)
- Like a River Glorious (2008)
- Lullaby for Leaving (2021)
- Lullaby from "Memorial to Silent Voices" (2011)
- Lux Veritas,
- Moonstruck Possum Trot (2013)
- The Mountain Whippoorwill (2011)
- Noche Triste (2013)
- Nocturne Under a Red Moon (2013)
- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Doubt (2017)
- Nuclear Family (2014)
- Oh, What a Morning! (2013)
- Paens for Brass Quintet (2009)
- Reanimations (2014)
- Red Rover (2019)
- Rumpelstilzchen (2010)
- The Seventh Degree of Freedom
- Symphony No. 1 (2019)
- Through the Looking Glass (2008)
- Urban Etudes for Double String Quartet and Brass Quintet (2009)
- You'll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) (2015)
Resources
- Battisti, Frank L. (ed.) The NEW Winds of Change. Meredith Music Publications, pp. 322, 2018.
- Jess Langston Turner website Accessed 15 August 2021
- Perusal score