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Spinning Rounds
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General Info
Year: 1993
Duration: c. 17:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Freundworks Publishing / MMB Music
Cost: Score and Parts (Rental), contact MMB Music | Score - $55.00
Instrumentation
(Incomplete, if you know the exact breakdown, please let us know)
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon (???)
Eb Soprano Clarinet
Bb Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
Bb Bass Clarinet
Alto Saxophone I-II
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Trumpet (in Bb) I-II-III-IV
French Horn I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III-IV
Tuba (???)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- (???)
(Percussion list needed)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Spinning Rounds is a concerto for band, giving all the players a chance to display their individual and ensemble virtuosity. The two movements of Spinning rounds are contrasting in their formal strategy:
The first movement, "Wheel Intervention". focuses on a single ostinato idea which fight off sundry interruptions always to return with greater obsessive power When it finally gathers its momentum at the end of the movement, there are three large wheels in simultaneous motion: the one-measure ostinato idea, a two measure syncopated counterpoint, and a rolling three-measure phase.
The second movement "Runes and Rondelays" is more of a stream-of-consciousness form. The "runes" at the beginning have a mystical sense of an archaic ritual leading to a similar ritualistic quiet chorale. This is followed by three "rondelays" - round dances with circular tunes which build in energy to a dizzy climax, broken off to reprise the chorale, this time heard in the full rich glory of the brass section.
Program Note by Don Freund
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Recent Performances
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Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
- Beyond the Brass Gates (1998)
- Earthdance Concerto (2001)
- End of Summer (1990)
- Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks
- Jug Blues and Fat Pickin' (1986)
- Nativitas! — Fantasy on Perotin's 12th Century Alleluia (1996)
- Outsider (2004)
- Radical Light (1990)
- Southwinds (1994)
- The Waste Land: Four Movements after T.S. Eliot (1972)
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