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Brokeback Mountain Act I

Full Score

1. Everything sounds as written, in the indicated octave. (All string natural harmonics are notated at actual pitch, with the small circle.)

2. Orchestra:

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Piccolo (doubles Flute 3)

2 Flutes

2 Oboes

2 Clarinets

Bass Clarinet

2 Bassoons

Contrabassoon

4 Horns

2 Trumpets

3 Trombones

Tuba

Timpani

2 or 3 Percussion (Xylophone., 5-octave Marimba, Vibraphone, Deep Bass Drum, 4 drums, Guiro)

Harp

Piano

Strings (e.g. 10-8-6-6-4, or more).

3. Cast:

Ennis del Mar, bass baritone

Jack Twist, tenor

Aguirre (trail boss), bass

Alma Beers (Ennis’ wife), soprano

Mrs. Beers (Alma's mother), mezzo

Lureen (Jack’s wife), mezzo

Hogboy (Lureen's father), bass

John Twist Sr. (Jack's father), tenor

Mrs. Twist (Jack's mother), alto

Bartender, alto

Saleswoman, alto

Townspeople (including Cowboy) – SATB (16 max)

Brief non singing appearances by Bill Jones and two Del Mar daughters

3. Scenes with page numbers:

Act I (Volume I)

Scene 1-------------------7 1963, Aguirre’s trailer

Scene 2-------------------30 Bar, Old Longhorn

Scene 3-------------------59

On the mountain

Scene 4-------------------81 Main camp, four days later

Scene 5-------------------92 Main camp, next day sunset

Scene 6-------------------130 Main camp, next morning

Scene 7-------------------139 Dress shop

Scene 8-------------------172

Lower main camp, twilight

Scene 9-------------------200 Next morning, first light

Scene 10-----------------218 Farm machinery salesroom, Texas

Scene 11-----------------238 1967, interior Alma and Ennis’s apartment in Riverton

Act II (Volume II)

Scene 1-------------------1 1967, Del Mar apartment

Scene 2-------------------18 Motel Siesta

Scene 3-------------------61 Six or seven years later, Del Mar apartment

Scene 4-------------------81 Farm machinery salesroom, Texas

Scene 5-------------------111 Del Mar apartment

Scene 6-------------------157

Thanksgiving, Alma and Bill’s dining room and kitchen

Scene 7-------------------179 1983, in the mountains, late afternoon

Scene 8-------------------242 Early autumn, downtown Riverton, in front of post office

Scene 9-------------------270 Twist kitchen

Scene 10-----------------281 Jack’s bedroom

Scene 11-----------------295 Ennis’s trailer

FOR THE CHORUS IN ACT TWO: These are townspeople, gossipy, uncompassionate, morbidly curious, who don't like Ennis and think he's weird. They cluster around him in his grief and in their cold and unsympathetic remarks play the role of the Furies.

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Charles Wuorinen

In 1970 Wuorinen became the youngest composer at that time to win the Pulitzer Prize (for the electronic work Time’s Encomium). The Pulitzer and the MacArthur Fellowship are just two among many awards, fellowships and other honors to have come his way. He has written more than 265 compositions to date in all genres from unaccompanied solos to large orchestral and operatic works (Haroun and The Sea of Stories, Brokeback Mountain). Wuorinen is the author of Simple Composition, used by composition students throughout the world. He has also been active as performer, an excellent pianist and a distinguished conductor of his own works as well as other recent repertoire. Wuorinen is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wuorinen war 1970 der jüngste Komponist, der jemals einen Pulitzer-Preis erhielt (für das elektronische Werk Time’s Encomium). Neben dem Pulitzer-Preis und auch einem MacArthur Stipendium erhielt er viele andere Auszeichnungen, Preise und Stipendien. Er verfasste mehr als 265 Kompositionen in allen Gattungen von Solostücken bis zu großen Orchesterwerken und Opern (Haroun and The Sea of Stories und Brokeback Mountain). Wuorinen ist der Autor des Buches Simple Composition, das von Kompositionsstudenten weltweit gebraucht wird. Er betätigt sich auch als Interpret. Er ist ein exzellenter Pianist und ein ausgezeichneter Dirigent, der sowohl seine eigenen Werke wie auch neueres Repertoire anderer Komponisten aufführt. Wuorinen ist Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters sowie der American Academy of Arts and Sciences. .

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