Time Travel
General Info
Year:1997
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Wingert-Jones Publications
Cost: Score and Parts - $80.00 | Score Only - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
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-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Cymbals
- Field Drum
- Flexatone
- Guiro
- Ratchet
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Temple Blocks
- Tom-Tom
- Triangle
- Water Triangle
Errata
In Parts:
- Tuba: 14 bars of rest too many between rehearsal number 138 and 159.
Program Notes
A modern minimalist work by the popular contemporary composer, Daniel Bukvich, Time Travel was based originally on the mathematical relationships found in the wheels/gears of a mechanical clock movement. It evolved into a work with a very distinctive Ravel flavor.
- Program Note from publisher
Felix Hauswirth of Zurich, Switzerland, commissioned Time Travel. It was originally conceived as a minimalistic composition based upon the mathematical relationships found in the wheels and gears of a mechanical clock movement, the “wheel train.” The ratios and directions of rotations furnished material for form, pitch centers, melodic fragments, and rhythm. There are some Ravel-like sounds in the piece. As he was working on this piece, Bukvich noticed that he hadn't been using the note B natural, which in the solfege scale would be “ti”. The abbreviation for “ti” in “sol-fa” is the letter T. The composer removed the letter T from Time Travel and got “ime ravel” (or “I’m Ravel”), creating a play on words. This is why, at the end of the piece, one hears the horns playing B naturals. There are some special effects in the piece that sound like train whistles, boat whistles, and car races. At times, it is kind of a take-off on Ravel's Bolero.
- Program Note by William V. Johnson
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Whitman College (Walla Walla, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Gary Gemberling, conductor) – 11 November 2018
- San Luis Obispo Wind Orchestra (William V. Johnson, conductor) - 27 October 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 12873465 (2004)
- Agincourt Hymn (1987)
- Ballroom Portraits (2015)
- Before Thy Throne I Now Appear (as arranger) (1750/1993)
- Buffalo Jump Ritual (2002)
- Casco Bay
- Celebrate Celebration (1995)
- Changing Concepts
- A Child's Dream of a Star
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestral Winds (1992)
- Concerto for Trumpet and Winds (2009)
- Cowboys (1996)
- Dinosaurs (1991)
- The Dream of Abraham (1993/1994)
- Electricity (1997)
- Fanfare for 1990 Goodwill Games (1990)
- Fanfare for a Great Circle
- Fanfare in Song Form
- Four Phrases from Psalm 91
- The Haunted Mine (2010)
- Hymn of St. Francis (1993)
- In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945. See: Symphony No. 1, "In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945"
- Inferno (2010)
- Jack Teagarden Enters Heaven (1997)
- Maine Vigils
- March of the Children's Guard (1997)
- Meditations on the Writings of Vasily Kandinsky (1996)
- Music for Percussion and Band (1996)
- Night City - Music for the Imaginary Film (1983)
- Rhythm
- Scenes from Childhood (1983)
- Song Suite for Band (1988)
- Surprise, Pattern, Illusion: Prehistoric Cave Ceremonies (1985)
- Symphony No. 1, "In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945" (1993)
- Three Phrases from Yugoslav Folk Songs (2003)
- Threnos (2000)
- Time Travel (1997)
- Tower of the Winds (2010)
- Unusual Behavior in Ceremonies Involving Drums (1999)
- The Virgin and Child With St. Anne
- Voodoo (1984)
- Xylophone Concerto (1979)
Resources
- Daniel Bukvich website Accessed 5 November 2018
- Perusal score