Tangents (Zare)
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Roger Zare Music
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Double Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III, including:
- Bass Drum
- Chimes
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Mark Tree
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam-Tam
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
A tangent line is a line that touches another at only one point without intersecting. In this work, I envisioned the musical lines interacting in this way, quickly flowing up and down and bouncing off of each other. This is clearest at the onset of the piece, with high percussion and winds swooping down and passing their line to the saxophones. After some more back and forth interplay between these musical lines, a flowing melody is revealed. As this melody is revisited and developed through the course of the work, the rush of 16th notes seldom wavers, and each iteration becomes larger and more grandiose, until its triumphant ending.
- Program Note from University of Nebraska Wind Ensemble concert program, 15 April 2016
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Nebraska (Lincoln) Wind Ensemble (Carolyn Barber, conductor) – 15 April 2016
- Indiana State (Terre Haute) Wind Orchestra (Roby George, conductor) – 25 February 2016 (CBDNA 2016 North Central Division Conference, Ames, Iowa)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- All Aboard the Hoodlebug. See: Ghost Town Triptych
- Buena Vista Furnace. See: Ghost Town Triptych
- December Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Ghost Town Triptych (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- All Aboard the Hoodlebug (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Laurel Run (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Buena Vista Furnace (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Interstellar Tarantella (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Laurel Run. See: Ghost Town Triptych
- Mare Tranquillitatis (Octet) (Flex instrumentation) (2012/2020)
- Meditation on Amen (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Three Ostinatos (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
- Water Bear Jig (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
All Wind Works
- Aerodynamics (2010)
- Awakening (2023)
- Bennu's Fire
- Biomimicry (2019)
- Breathless (2023)
- December Lullaby (2017)
- December Lullaby (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- Ghost Town Triptych (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- All Aboard the Hoodlebug (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Laurel Run (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Buena Vista Furnace (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Hydrostatics (2020)
- Interstellar Tarantella (2019)
- Interstellar Tarantella (Flex instrumentation) (2019/2020)
- Lift-Off (2015)
- Little Jig (2017)
- Mare Tranquillitatis (2007/2012)
- Mare Tranquillitatis (Octet) (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2012/2020)
- Mare Tranquillitatis (Saxophone octet) (2007/2012)
- Meditation on Amen (2018)
- Meditation on Amen (Flex instrumentation) (2018/2020)
- Ocean of Undiscovered Truth (2019)
- Pastorale (2021)
- Tangents (2014)
- Three Ostinatos (2015)
- Three Ostinatos (Flex instrumentation) (2015/2020)
- Water Bear Jig (2017)
- Water Bear Jig (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2020)
- We Choose to Go to the Moon (2020)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Roger Zare website Accessed 15 April 2016
- Zare, R. (2014). Tangents [score]. Roger Zare: Evanston, Ill.