Recoil

From Wind Repertory Project
Joseph Schwantner

Joseph Schwantner


General Info

Year: 2004
Duration: c. 12:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott Music Distribution
Cost: Score and Parts - €355.00   |   Score Only - €79.00


Instrumentation

Full Score
Piccolo
Flute I-II
Alt Flute
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Piano (amplified)
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:

  • Anvil
  • Bass Drum (2)
  • Bongos
  • Brake Drums (4)
  • Conga drum
  • Cowbell (large)
  • Crotales
  • Glockenspiel
  • Marimba
  • Suspended Cymbal (3: large, medium, small)
  • Tam-tam (3: large, medium, small)
  • Tenor Drum
  • Timbales
  • Tom-Toms (1 set of 4)
  • Triangle (4: 2 large, medium, small)
  • Tubular Bells
  • Vibraphone
  • Xylophone

Players humming


Errata

None discovered thus far.


Program Notes

Recoil was commissioned through the Raymond and Beverly Sackler New Music Foundation by the University of Connecticut. It was given its premiere on 3 November 2004, at the Isaac Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall, in New York, by the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble, Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor. It is the first of Schwantner's works for winds to include both saxophone and euphonium parts, and was not inspired by poetry.

With Recoil, Schwantner utilizes a very limited palate and foregoes certain elements that characterized his first three works for winds (there is no use of micro-notation, “visual time signatures,” or other unconventional musical notations).

Schwantner writes:

Recoil is my fourth work for wind ensemble in a series of pieces that span twenty-nine years. The other works are: and the mountains rising nowhere (1977), From a Dark Millennium (1980), and In evening's stillness (1996). While Recoil employs a larger instrumentation than the earlier works, they all share similar characteristics in that each is framed in a single continuous movement and each exploit the rich timbral resources of an expanded percussion section that includes amplified piano.”

- Program Note by Nikk Pilato


Media


State Ratings

  • Georgia: VI
  • Louisiana: V


Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer


Resources

  • Higbee, Scott. (2003). "Joseph Schwantner" from A Composer's Insight." Galesville, MD: Meredith Music.
  • Joseph Schwantner website
  • Pilato, Nikk. (2007). A Conductor's Guide to Wind Music of Joseph Schwantner Doctoral Dissertation.
  • Renshaw, Jeffrey H. "Recoil." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 852-862. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
  • Renshaw, Jeffrey. (1991). Schwantner on Composition. Instrumentalist, 45(6)
  • Schwantner, J. (2004). Recoil: For Wind Ensemble [score]. Schott Helicon Music: New York.