The tide rises, the tide falls
for chamber ensemble
Composer
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler
Composition Date: 2014
Duration: 00:14:30
Genre: Orchestra / Large Ensembles, Chamber Orchestra (10 to 20)
Programme Note:
My assignment for this piece was to respond to Barbara Pentland’s Tides, for violin, harp, and marimba. After spending time with her score, I began extracting fragments that particularly spoke to me, and created a palette of stolen harmonies, melodic fragments, textures, and colours. Then came the hard part. How should I use these fragments? What should I say with them? I stopped listening to Pentland’s Tides, and instead began thinking about the ocean’s tides: this endless cycle that is at once constantly changing (and causing great change), and yet always the same, always there. I began thinking about the tension between stasis and change. I created a piece with five sections that are all shaped around exactly the same melody line, a melody created by connecting fragments taken from Pentland’s music. In each section I explored different colours and textures, timings, and densities. There are layers that are relentlessly static, yet these layers are placed in a context of change. Each section sounds quite different, and yet, each section also sounds the same.
Premiere Information:
12 April 2014, Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver New Music Ensemble; Giorgio Magnanensi, conductor
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Duration: 00:14:30
Genre: Orchestra / Large Ensembles, Chamber Orchestra (10 to 20)
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation Set Number 1:- 1 x Flute
- 1 x Oboe
- 1 x Clarinet
- 1 x Bassoon
- 1 x Horn
- 1 x Percussion
- 1 x Harp
- 1 x Piano
- 1 x Violin
- 1 x Viola
- 1 x Violoncello
- 1 x Double bass
- 1 x Chamber orch.
Programme Note:
My assignment for this piece was to respond to Barbara Pentland’s Tides, for violin, harp, and marimba. After spending time with her score, I began extracting fragments that particularly spoke to me, and created a palette of stolen harmonies, melodic fragments, textures, and colours. Then came the hard part. How should I use these fragments? What should I say with them? I stopped listening to Pentland’s Tides, and instead began thinking about the ocean’s tides: this endless cycle that is at once constantly changing (and causing great change), and yet always the same, always there. I began thinking about the tension between stasis and change. I created a piece with five sections that are all shaped around exactly the same melody line, a melody created by connecting fragments taken from Pentland’s music. In each section I explored different colours and textures, timings, and densities. There are layers that are relentlessly static, yet these layers are placed in a context of change. Each section sounds quite different, and yet, each section also sounds the same.
Premiere Information:
12 April 2014, Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver New Music Ensemble; Giorgio Magnanensi, conductor
CATALOGUE INFO:
- Call Number:
- MI 1200 B985ti
- Genre:
- Orchestra / Large Ensembles, Chamber Orchestra (10 to 20)
- Date of Acquisition:
- August 31, 2015
- Type:
- Print-music, Published by CMC
- Physical Description:
- 1 score
50 Pages
Height: 30 cm
Width: 23 cm
Parts page count: 52
12 parts
Height: 30 cm
Width: 23 cm - Additional Information:
- 1111/1000/hp/pno/perc/str
Commissioned by: Vancouver New Music
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