Corpus Callosum
General Info
Year: 1999 / 2003
Duration: c. 4:15
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: LudwigMasters
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $95.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Field Drum
- Mallets
- Snare Drum
- Tom-Tom (low)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This piece was written to commemorate the retirement of Colonel Jack Grogan. Col. Grogan had told me that he was of two minds about the military, and held his patriotism and love of country on one side, and more militaristic aspects of service on the other. He was a man who held two possibility [sic] conflicting aesthetics in one body.
This piece presents music from the patriotic/ love of country aesthetic simultaneously with the music from the military. Simultaneously means that music in three-quarter time (or 15-8 time) is presented at the same time as music in 12 -8 or 4-4 time. The conductor offers one meter in the right hand and another in the left hand, with both meters sharing downbeats.
This bilateral conducting represents a conductor who has had her corpus callosum (nerve system that connects the two halves of the brain) severed. Left hand is in one meter; right hand in another. To emphasize the effect, the conductor is visually split down the middle, with one half of the body white and the other black. Musicians are instructed to follow one half or the other.
- Program Note by composer
Written to commemorate Col. Jack H. Grogan's retirement from the United States Army Field Band.
- Program Note from score
The corpus callosum is the broad band of nerve fibers joining the two halves of the brain.
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. U.S. Army Field Band (Finley R. Hamilton, conductor)
- Audio CD: United States Army Field Band (Thomas Duffy, conductor) – 2003
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- United States Army Field Band (Washington, D.C.) I (Thomas Duffy, conductor) – 17 December 2003 (2003 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Scalin' and Wailin' (Flex instrumentation) (2018)
All Wind Works
- A+ (1998)
- And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest (2000)
- Ask the Sky and the Earth (as transcriber) (2009)
- Bell Piece (as editor)
- Butterflies and Bees! (1999)
- Century Shouts (2012)
- Ceremonial March, A
- Corpus Callosum (1999/2003)
- Crystals (1985/1992)
- Gnomon
- I Sing the Body Eclectic (for flute choir)
- I Sit Alone in Martin's Church (1998/2003)
- Little Snakes (in the Lighthouse)
- Max the King
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1992)
- Philosopher's Stone, The
- Pilgrims' Progress (1992)
- Power and Light (2020)
- The Promise of Living (as transcriber) (1954/1956/2000)
- Scalin' and Wailin' (Flex instrumentation) (2018)
- Snakes! (1991)
- Song of Hiawatha (1995)
- Stomp Your Foot (as transcriber) (1954/1956/2000)
- Three Places in New Haven (2001)
- Whispers of the Patriots (1993)
- Zephyrs
Resources
- Thomas Duffy website – Accessed 14 May 2022