Ascendant Cycles
Peter Van Zandt Lane and Linqua Franqa
Subtitle: for solo hip-hop vocal soloist, winds, and percussion
General Info
Year: 2023
Duration: c. 11:35
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Murphy Music Press
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $250.00 | Score Only (print) - $50.00
Movements
1. seven generations- 3:40
2. on Marian - 3:40
3. never the ending - 3:35
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- C Piccolo
- Flute I-II-III
- Oboe I-II
- English Horn
- Bassoon I-II
- Contra-Bassoon
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
- B-flat Soprano Saxophone
- E-flat Alto Saxophone
- B-flat Tenor Saxophone
- E-flat Baritone Saxophone
- C Trumpet I-II-III-IV
- Horn in F I-II-III-IV
- Trombone I-II-III
- Bass Trombone
- Euphonium
- Tuba
- Contra-Bass
- Piano (doubling Celesta)
- Timpani
- Percussion I-II-III-IV-V, including:
- *Almglocken
- *Bass Drum
- *Bongos (2)
- *Brake Drum
- *Congas (2)
- *Gongs (2: small)
- *Kick Drum
- *Roto-Toms (3)
- *Suspended Cymbal
- *Timbales (2)
- *Tom-tom (20")
- *Triangles (medium and small)
- *Wood Block
- *Xylophone
Hip-hop vocal artist
Score contains lyrics
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Ascendant Cycles was co-composed by hip-hop artist Linqua Franqqa and composer Peter Van Zandt Lane for the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble's performance at the 2023 CBDNA National Conference.
The three-movement work combines technical and stylistic traits of hip- hop, wind ensemble repertoire, and experimental music (from both genres) to portray a poetic narrative of Linqua Franqa's work as an activist. Through imagining futures and reminiscing the past (including a thread on the life of famed 20th century contra-alto Marian Anderson), Ascendant Cycles is rooted in the notion of social progress being achieved only by continuous effort and cyclical struggle.
- Program Note from University of Georgia Hodgson Wind Ensemble concert program, 16 February 2023
Commissioned for the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble (Nicholas Williams, conductor) for the 2023 CBDNA National Conference in Athens, Georgia.
- Program Note from score
Media
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Wind Ensemble (Nicholas Enrico Williams, conductor; Linqua Franqa, vocal) – 16 February 2023 (CBDNA 2023 National Conference, Athens, Ga.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Ascendant Cycles (2023)
- Astrarium 2015
- Beacons 2017
- Chansonnier (as transcriber) (2018)
- Echo Chambers (2019)
- Hivemind 2014
- /ping/ (2016)
- Radix Tyrannis (2017)
- Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (2023)
- Slant Apparatus 2010
- Violin Concerto in D Major (as transcriber) (1878/2020)
Resources
- Perusal score
- Peter Van Zandt Lane website Accessed 20 January 2023