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Subtitle: For Wind, Brass and Percussion
This work is the first movement from Turnage's orchestral work, Etudes and Elegies.
General Info
Year: 2000
Duration: c. 8:27
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Schott Music Group
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental
Instrumentation
- Full Score
- Flute I-II-III-IV (III and IV doubling Piccolos and Alto Flutes)
- Oboe I-II-III (III doubling English Horn)
- Bassoon I-II (II doubling Contrabassoon)
- Contrabassoon
- E-flat Soprano Clarinet
- B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
- B-flat Bass Clarinet
- B-flat Contrabass Clarinet (optional)
- C Trumpet I-II-III
- Horn in F I-II-III-IV
- Trombone I-II
- Bass Trombone
- Tuba
- Timpani
- Percussion, including:
- *Bass Drum
- *Claves
- *Cowbell
- *Glockenspiel
- *Lion's Roar
- *Medium Ride Cymbal (medium)
- *Ratchet
- *Sizzle Cymbal (small)
- *Snare Drum
- *Suspended Cymbal (large)
- *Tambourine
- *Vibraphone
- *Woodblock (large)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. First performance: 15 July 2001. Dedication: "For Jonathan Moore"
- Program Note from score
Media
- Audio: Orchestre Symphonique du Theatre Royal de la Monnaie (Kazushi Ono, conductor)
- Audio CD: Orchestre Symphonique du Theatre Royal de la Monnaie (Kazushi Ono, conductor) - 2004
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- DePaul University (Chicago, Ill.) Wind Ensemble (Cliff Colnot, conductor) - 26 May 2016
- East Carolina University (Greenville) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Scott Carter, conductor) - 21 April 2004
- New York Philharmonic (Andrew Davis, conductor) - 2 January 2004 *United States Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Canon Fever (2011)
- Fanfare (from all sides) (2006)
- A Furious Fanfare (2019)
- Lament for a Hanging Man (1983)
- No Let Up (2003)
- ONYX 30 (2022)
- Out of Black Dust (2008)
- A Quick Blast (2000)
- Release (1987)
- Set to (1993)
- Two Fanfares and a Lament (2003)
- Uli (2021)
Resources
- BIS Records (2007). Liner notes of CD Prelude, Fnugg and Riffs
- Perusal Score
- Turnage, M.; Moore, J. (2000). A Quick Blast: Wind, Brass & Percussion (2000) [score]. Schott Hire Material: [London].