Scored for: 4 marimbas Duration: 6:22 min. Premiere: 6/00, Morris Arboretum, Battery 4 Percussion Group For: Battery 4 Percussion Group Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
PROGRAM NOTES
TRAX is a work based on rhythm, interval and motive that nods at different musical languages; jazz, funk, blues, baroque, romantic and modern atonal. The work began as a sax quartet, Sax Trax (1997) for the Diastema (France), Helikon (Holland) quartets Prism (US) sax quartets. Later it was arranged as a mallet quartet for the Battery 4 Percussion Group. The piece opens with pointillistic rhythms followed by a quasi blues middle section including some improvisation. Sostenuto lines give way to soloistic passages over slowly evolving harmonies. A brief transition leads into a recapitulation of the opening material where, after a momentary loss of verve, the quartet re-enters with renewed vigor and drives the piece to its close.
Trax (for marimba quartet)
Scored for: 4 marimbas
Duration: 6:22 min.
Premiere: 6/00, Morris Arboretum, Battery 4 Percussion Group
For: Battery 4 Percussion Group
Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
PROGRAM NOTES
TRAX is a work based on rhythm, interval and motive that nods at different musical languages; jazz, funk, blues, baroque, romantic and modern atonal. The work began as a sax quartet, Sax Trax (1997) for the Diastema (France), Helikon (Holland) quartets Prism (US) sax quartets. Later it was arranged as a mallet quartet for the Battery 4 Percussion Group. The piece opens with pointillistic rhythms followed by a quasi blues middle section including some improvisation. Sostenuto lines give way to soloistic passages over slowly evolving harmonies. A brief transition leads into a recapitulation of the opening material where, after a momentary loss of verve, the quartet re-enters with renewed vigor and drives the piece to its close.