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Gala Flagello

Miss Minutes

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a percussion micro-concerto for chamber ensemble FULL SCORE (TRANSPOSED)

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Gala Flagello

Miss Minutes

a percussion micro-concerto for chamber ensemble

(2022)

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Program Note:

Miss Minutes (2022) was commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and School as a First Glimpse Chamber Music Commission. e work explores the 2022 AMFS season theme “Myths and Truths: What We Talk About When We Talk About Ourselves” through the alliterative and evocative turn of phrase “miss minutes.” When we miss minutes, are we forgetting (missing memory), wasting time (missing opportunity), or careening o course (missing regularity)? When we nd that minutes have been missed, can we enter a more desirable timeline? Further, this temporal concept becomes an entity when capitalized as a title: who is Miss Minutes? Musically, the percussion soloist, ensemble, conductor, and composer all take their turns as the piece’s protagonist, grappling with the strict but slippery nature of a eeting micro-concerto. Many thanks to Donald Crockett, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, and the Aspen Music Festival and School for bringing this piece to life.

2022 First Glimpse Chamber Music Commission from the Aspen Music Festival and School

Instrumentation:

Flute

Clarinet in B

Percussion

Vibraphone (yarn mallets and bowed)

Crotales (C5–C6 sounding C7–C8; plastic mallets and bowed)

Wood Blocks (3)

Temple Blocks

Toms (2)

Bongos

Piano

Violin I

Violin II

Viola

Violoncello

Duration: c. 8 minutes

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Published by Just a eory Press, L.L.C. www.justatheorypress.com

—Gala Flagello 2022

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C l a r i n e t i n B b Pe rc u s s i o n Vi b r a p h o n e , B o n g o s , To m - To m s , Wo o d B l o c k s , C r o t a l e s

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