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Muhly, Nico Drones, Variations, Ornaments
Score for sale (North America): http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=14043512 Score for sale (UK, Europe and other territories): http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/01110821/details.html Information about work and materials for hire: http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/47912
Chester Music Limited Part of the Music Sales Group
for ensemble
Full score
St Rose Music Publishing Co. / Chester Music Ltd.
INSTRUMENTATION Piccolo (doubling Alto Flute) Clarinet in B (doubling Bass Clarinet) Trombone Percussion (1 player): Vibraphone (with bow) Chimes Bass Drum Suspended Cymbal* Large Tam-tam**
Electric Guitar Piano Violin Viola Violoncello Contrabass *The suspended cymbal should be overturned on a towel, filled with lengths of chain, coins, and assorted metal objects. When struck, the effect should be of glass shattering. **The tam-tam should be suspended normally on a rack, with lengths of chain, coins, metal beads, etc., suspended in front of it. When struck, the effect should be a long tam-tam stroke shimmering with a metallic halo. Think Jacob Marley’s ghost in China. It may help, particularly in the last section, to affix the beater to the instrument’s rack as well.
Duration: c. 14 minutes
Drones, Variations, Ornaments is music in constant transformation. What begins as a simple, cloud-like sequence of string chords with a trombone melody slowly transforms into an agitated perpetual motion machine of winds, guitar, percussion, and piano. The machine spits out an incessant syncopated drone on middle-C, over which a fragment of a melody in the violin and trombone slowly turns into something more dangerous. The sound of breaking glass and assorted violent string pluckings slowly ushers in a decadent, syrupy melting texture in the strings, who accompany an alto flute solo. The piece ends in a suspended crystalline structure with a cello and trombone duet. ĚžNICO MUHLY
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