Still Life

Still Life open score for chamber ensemble

Jordan Nobles Dedicated to Marci Rabe

North Vancouver, 2006 (rev.2012)

Still Life Open Score for chamber ensemble Dedicated to Marci Rabe.

About the Piece Originally written for large choir in 2006, Still Life was premiered on May 31, 2008 at the Vancouver Bach Choir’s National Competition for Large Choir Compositions (conducted

by Bruce Pullan) where it took First Prize.

Since then it has gone on to performances and success around the world including…

- a performance by over 600 singers at the Mass Participatory Musicking Festival in Hong Kong - being chosen to represent Canada for the International Society of Contemporary Music’s 2009 World Music Days in Sweden This new Open Score version was created in February 2012.

Program Note The inspiration behind Still Life is a desire to capture a single moment stretched over time. A frozen snapshot of life that doesn’t decay or fade. Still Life has no rhythmic motifs and no discernible melodies.

It is a monolithic structure without overt movement, like a cloud, a sunset, or the tide. But on closer inspection, inside the stillness itself, there is always motion.

Performance Notes - Still Life has eight separate lines to be performed so it can be performed by 8 or more winds, strings, etc or by two pianos or other polyphonic instruments (playing multiple lines) or any combination.

- Players can double up on a part if there are more than eight players; As long as all parts are covered.

Still Life © Jordan Nobles, North Vancouver, 2006 (rev.2011) www.jordannobles.com