Masks and Machines

Paul Dooley

General Info

Year: 2015
Duration: c. 9:50
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Paul Dooley
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental

Movements

1. I. Quarter Note = 132 - 3:15
2. II. Quarter Note = 56 - 3:05
3. III. Half Note = 84 - 2:55

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute III
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
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
String Bass
Harp
Celesta
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV-V-VI, including:

Bass Drum
Brake Drum
Castanets
Chimes
Crash Cymbals
Finger Cymbals
Flexitone
Glockenspiel
Marimba
Suspended Cymbal
Triangle
Vibraphone
Whip
Xylophone

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Masks and Machines (2015) was commissioned by a consortium of wind bands organized by Timothy Shade in honor of Gary Green's retirement from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

Masks and Machines is inspired by the early twentieth century works of Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer, and the Neoclassical music of Igor Stravinsky. I admire the simplicity of shapes and color in Schlemmer's works such as the Bauhaus Stairway and Triadic Ballet as well as the renaissance and baroque musical influences in Stravinsky's Pulcinella.

Masks and Machines contains three contrasting character pieces featuring renaissance brass music, Baroque fortspinnung in virtuosic mallet percussion, lush oboe, clarinet and bassoon solos, and machine-like flute rips.

- Program Note by composer

Awards

American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award, winner, 2016
National Bandmasters Association/William D. Revelli Award, 2015, co-winner

Media

Audio: Reference recording. University of Florida Wind Symphony (David Waybright, conductor)
Audio: Reference recording. Frost Wind Ensemble (Gary Green, conductor)
Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor) - 2017

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Indiana University (Bloomington) Wind Ensemble (Marcellus Brown, conductor) – 26 September 2023
James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Va.) Wind Symphony (Nieves Villaseñor, conductor) - 25 February 2023
William Mason High School (Mason, Ohio) Wind Symphony (Edward F. Protzman, conductor) - 19 December 2022 (2022 Midwest Clinic)
University of Kansas (Lawrence) Wind Ensemble (Paul Popiel, conductor) – 26 April 2022
Tyler (Tx.) Junior College Wind Ensemble (Eddie W. Airheart, conductor) - 13 April 2021
Oklahoma State University (Stillwater) Wind Ensemble (Joseph Missal, conductor) - 25 February 2021
University of Kentucky (Lexington) Wind Symphony (Cody Birdwell, conductor) - 13 November 2020
University of North Texas (Denton) Wind Orchestra (Andrew Trachsel, conductor) – 11 February 2020
The Ohio State University (Columbus) Wind Symphony (Russel C. Mikkelson, conductor) – 24 November 2019
Illinois State University (Normal) Wind Symphony (Anthony C. Marinello, conductor) – 21 November 2019
California State University, Fullerton, Wind Symphony (Dustin Barr, conductor) – 6 October 2019
Baylor University (Waco, Texas) Wind Ensemble (J. Eric Wilson, conductor) – 5 March 2019
University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) Wind Ensemble (Kenneth Ozzello, conductor) – 2 February 2019
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.) Band (Peter Haberman, conductor) – 11 November 2018
Triangle Wind Ensemble (Cary, N.C.) (Evan Feldman, conductor) – 9 November 2018
Indiana University (Bloomington) Wind Ensemble (Rodney Dorsey, conductor) – 25 September 2018
University of Texas (Austin) Wind Ensemble (Pamornpan Komolpamorn, conductor) – 29 April 2018
Vandegrift High School (Austin, Texas) Wind Ensemble (Mike Howard, conductor) – 4 May 2018
University of Illinois (Champaign) Wind Symphony (Jason Gardner, conductor) – 7 April 2018

Works for Winds by This Composer

Boom Goes the Dynamite (2023)
Canticles (2022)
Circus Overture (as transcriber) (2015)
Coast of Dreams (2014)
Elytra (2022)
Manifestos (2019)
March Jubilee (2020/2022)
Masks and Machines (2015)
Masks and Machines (chamber instrumentation) (2015/2020)
Mavericks (2016)
Meditation at Lagunitas (2014)
Mondrian's Studio (2019)
Point Blank (2010)
Point Blank (Chamber instrumentation) (2010/2020)
Salt of the Earth (2012)
The Spellbook (2019)
Three Futurist Symphonies
Velocity Festivals. See: Coast of Dreams
Yellow Red Blue (2021)

Resources

Dooley, P. (2015). Masks and Machines [score]. Paul Dooley: [United States].
Pasquale, John D. "Meditations at Lagunitas." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 752-760. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
Schwartz, Robert M. "Masks and Machines." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 739-751. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.