Repercussions (Gorb)
General Info
Year: 2011
Duration: 14:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Maecenas Music
Cost: Score and Parts - £95.00 | Full Score - £26.50
Instrumentation
Full Score
Piccolo I-II (II doubling Flute)
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
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
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba I-II
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III-IV, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bongos
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Little Toy Drum
- Maracas
- Side Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tam Tam
- Tambourine
- Timpani
- Tom Toms
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Vibraslap
- Wind Chimes
- Wood Blocks, high, medium and low
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
My first thoughts were to write a kind of 'history of the world in four chapters' beginning with primitive barbarity, moving through greater refinement and sophistication before ending in brutality bringing the work full circle, and something of that is present in the final version of the piece. The impossibility in my mind was to metamorphose from a kind of pre-medieval style, rushing through the centuries, culminating in a neurotic postmodernism within fifteen minutes or so. Eventually I hit on the idea of each movement being a kind of reaction to the previous one, but at the same time containing something of what has just been heard.
The title of the work is the result of much pacing and reflects not only the various meanings of the word 'repercussion' but also takes into account that each movement starts with an aspect of the percussion writing of the previous movement ... a convenient pun.
- Program Note by composer
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- National Intercollegiate Band (Colorado Springs, Colo.) (Craig Kirchhoff, conductor) - 19 July 2011 *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- A Little Tango Music (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
All Wind Works
- Adrenaline City (2006)
- African Samba (2006)
- Ascent (1996/2004)
- Awayday (1996)
- Awayday (arr. Wintringham) (1999/2015)
- Battle Symphony (1999)
- Bells Across the Atlantic (2013)
- Bermuda Triangle (1994)
- Bohemian Revelry (2013)
- Bohemian Revelry: For Chamber Ensemble (2013/2021)
- Bohemian Revelry (tr. Holland) (2013/2017)
- Bridgewater Breeze (1996)
- Candlelight Procession (2001)
- Concerto for Violin, Viola and Wind Ensemble (2022)
- Dances from Crete (2003)
- Downtown Diversions (2000)
- Eine Kleine Walzermusik (2009)
- Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik (2003)
- Elements (1998)
- Euphonium Concerto 1997
- Farewell (2008)
- French Dances Revisited (2004)
- A Little Salsa Music
- A Little Tango Music (2007)
- Metropolis (1992)
- Midnight in Buenos Aires (2007)
- Out of the Darkness (2023)
- Parade of the Wooden Warriors (1999)
- Pikes Peak (2017)
- Repercussions (2011)
- Scenes from an English Landscape
- Scenes from Bruegel (1994)
- Suite for Winds (1993)
- Summer Dances (2012)
- Sunrise and Safari (2006)
- Symphony No. 1 in C (2000)
- Three Way Suite
- Towards Nirvana (2002)
- Tranquility (2009)
- Viderunt Omnes (2014)
- Yiddish Dances (1997)
- Yiddish Dances (Chamber) (1997/2020)
Resources
- Adam Gorb website
- Gorb, A. (2011). Repercussions: For Symphonic Wind Ensemble [score]. Maecenas: Godstone, U.K.