Threshold
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SKU: A0.1272805
Composed by Drew Morris. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival. Score and Parts. 107 pages. Yellow Envelope Publications #865003. Published by Yellow Envelope Publications (A0.1272805).Threshold is meant to portray time slowing down as you approach a black hole due to Gravitational Time Dilation. As such, I took a melody and reworked it in several different time signatures, to allow you to feel it stretch out or shrink, leading to moments where time basically goes out the window with prolonged moments of aleatoric metallic cacophony in the percussion section.
Mixed in with the increasing and decreasing time signatures is something loosely resembling a fugue subject in the woodwinds. I’m not sure where it came from, but I love the feeling it gave this piece.
By the way, I always thought it would be really cool if, during the end of the piece, the percussion could be spread throughout the performance venue to create a true surround sound experience, playing the aleatoric motive all around the audience. (Maybe even let some of the audience members participate too!) …just a thought.
Instrumentation
2 Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, 2 Clarinet, Bass Clarinet,
2 Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone,
2 Trumpet, French Horn, 2 Trombone, Euphonium, Treble Clef Euphonium, Tuba
6 Percussionists - Timpani, Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Floor Tom,
2 Suspended Cymbal, Shaker (egg or shekere), Crash Cymbals, Tam-tam,
Glockenspiel, and as many pitched metallic instruments as possible (G, A-flat, B-Flat)
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