cindy mctee

NOTEZART
for brass ensemble and percussion

2016
5 minutes

Commissioned by the
Brass and Percussion Ensemble
of the
National Orchestra of Lyon

instrumentation

4 Trumpets in C 2 Horns (may be doubled) 2 Tenor Trombones Bass Trombone Tuba 2 Percussion Percussion 1 Triangle Chimes/Tubular Bells (extended range) Tambourine Small Tom-Tom or Renaissance Drum Snare Drum (shared with Perc. 2) Marimba Percussion 2 Tambourine 4 Timpani Snare Drum (shared with Perc. 1)

 

score & audio examples

Notezart

computer realization of entire work using acoustic instrument samples

 

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program notes

Commissioned by the Brass and Percussion Ensemble of the National Orchestra of Lyon.

I very much enjoy finding a way to make various kinds of music live together. So in this piece, you will hear 12-tone passages along with quartal/quintal and triadic harmony. To create unity, I use a steady pulse throughout and a strong reliance on the interval of the perfect 4th which opens the third movement from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - inspiration for Notezart. My “stolen” music (the work’s centerpiece) is cast in a quasi-Renaissance style - with the exception of the the duet between trumpet and trombone, more in keeping with an 18th-century variation.