Description
Five Pieces for Wind Instruments, Paul Burnell, composed 2002, revised 2011
Approximate durations:
1. 2:00
2. 4:00
3. 4:25
4. 2:40
5. 3:45
Total duration 17:00
It is not necessary to perform all 5 movements.
Instrumentation:
Flute (doubling Piccolo in the 1st and 5th movements)
Oboe
Clarinet in B flat
Alto Saxophone
Bass Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet in B flat
Horn in F
Trombone
Transposing instruments are shown transposed in the score.
Sympathetic instrument doublings and/or substitutions are permissible.
Unless otherwise indicated all cresc. and dim. hairpin marks move the dynamic up or down one grade.
Programme note:
Five Pieces for Wind Instruments was written for The Southwark Consorts of Winds - The Ancient and Modern Consort.
Each of the five movements subject familiar musical stereotypes to simple but rather strict processes.
The first movement is a march where the phrase lengths are gradually shortened. The second movement presents a simple melody imitated by other instruments. The middle movement, which is like a hinge in the overall structure, is a canon - where the imitation is between two groups. The fourth movement is a reverie with slight but systematic changes to the sustained harmony. The fifth movement is a jig or waltz where the phrase lengths are, unlike the first movement, gradually lengthened.