Oppositional Elements
Subtitle: For Flexible Wind Band with Adaptable Parts
General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $75.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 for each instrument
Full Score
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F
Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani (optional)
Percussion I-II-III (optional), including:
- Bongos
- Concert Tom
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Wood Blocks (2)
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Oppositional Elements is an exciting exercise in the interaction of opposing voices, textually as well as contrapuntally and dynamically. The constant interplay of different elements, shaping space with alternating accents and rhythmic figures, provides an energy much like that which is created between magnets, both in attraction and repulsion. Motivic ideas bounce off of and around each other constantly, driving the piece to a frenzied finale.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, Ark.) Wind Ensemble (Craig V. Hamilton, conductor) - 31 October 2022
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Oppositional Elements (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
All Wind Works
- Fanfare for a Bright, New World (2020)
- From Whence They Came (2019)
- In My Perfect Place (2018)
- Many a Glorious Morning I Have Seen (2021)
- Only Light, Only Love (2018)
- Oppositional Elements (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Pieces of Glass (2019)
- Sarcophagus (2018)
Resources
- Creative Repertoire Initiative
- Leslie Gilreath website Accessed 11 May 2021