Shut Out

From Wind Repertory Project
Tyler Mazone

Tyler Mazone


General Info

Year: 2022
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Tyler Mazone
Cost: Score and Parts ( (digital) - $75.00   |   Score Only (digital) - $15.00


Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn (optional)
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra-Alto Clarinet (optional)
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
B-flat Flugelhorn (optional)
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion, including:

  • Bass Drum
  • Snare Drum
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tom-toms
  • Triangle
  • Vibraphone


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Shut Out is a piece about the experience of being a disabled person and not quite fitting into society. The repeating structures throughout represent society with disabled people being the melodic and harmonic ideas that wash over and around these structures.

The piece is cast in three distinct sections, each showing a range of emotions that me and my disabled friends, colleagues, and family feel every day. Shut Out starts off with ponderous music which is the exposition of the burden that we feel every day having to fit into a society that really isn’t built for us. A faster section is ushered in, representing the daily charades that have to be played with society with factors such as ableism, intersectionality, barriers to accessibility, and even socioeconomics. This comes to a climax which leads into an optimistic statement about what society could be like if we worked harder to be more inclusive and accessible. This dream is then yanked out by a sudden ending that sounds like a door being shut in someone’s face.

Obviously, being shut out is not an experience that is exclusive to disabled people. People affected by things like racial injustice, various stigmas such as xenophobia and homophobia, ableism, and poverty all feel this way. I simply wrote the piece from my lens as a disabled person, but I hope that others who have been shut out of society can connect with this piece, as society could not exist without so many of those that are excluded.

- Program Note by composer


Media


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

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  • Rainbow City Concert Band (Seattle) (Jennifer Lang-Powers, conductor) - 22 March 2024
  • University of South Carolina (Columbia) University Band (Quintus Wrighten, conductor) - 17 April 2023
  • Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Concert Band (Brian Coffill, conductor) - 14 April 2023
  • Tempe (Ariz.) Winds (Stephen Meyer, conductor) - 31 January 2023
  • Greater Hartford (Conn.) Youth Wind Ensemble (Chris Ramos, conductor) - 18 December 2022
  • Northern Arizona University, Symphonic Band (Stephen Meyer, conductor) - 18 November 2022
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Wind Orchestra (Barry Houser, conductor) - 16 November 2022
  • Nebraska Wesleyan University, Symphonic Band (Joshua Roach, conductor) - 9 November 2022
  • State University of New York, Potsdam, Crane Wind Ensemble (Brian K. Doyle, conductor) - 23 September 2022 *Premiere Performance*


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