ATMOSPHERE AS A FLUID SYSTEM, THE (CHAMBER ORCHESTRA VERSION)
Instrumentation:
Flute, 3 percussion: [1 - vibraphone, wood block, sleigh bells], [2 - marimba, orchestra bells], [3 - bongos, tom-tom (low), tam-tam (medium), wood block, suspended cymbals, temple blocks, snare drum, orchestra bells, chimes (C#, G#, D#)], strings
Flute, 3 percussion: [1 - vibraphone, wood block, sleigh bells], [2 - marimba, orchestra bells], [3 - bongos, tom-tom (low), tam-tam (medium), wood block, suspended cymbals, temple blocks, snare drum, orchestra bells, chimes (C#, G#, D#)], strings
Duration: 20 minutes
Premiere:
May 25, 2001 by Eugenia Zukerman, flute, and the National Symphony of Mexico, Enrique Diemecke, conductor, in Mexico City, Mexico
May 25, 2001 by Eugenia Zukerman, flute, and the National Symphony of Mexico, Enrique Diemecke, conductor, in Mexico City, Mexico
Available From:
Oxford University Press (rental)
Oxford University Press (rental)
Composer's Notes:
“Only in the present century has the atmosphere been seen as a large fluid system, the behaviour of which is primarily determined by the need for a poleward transfer of heat.”
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume XII, Macropaedia
The Atmosphere As a Fluid System suggests music which, while intricately interconnected, forms a gesture of fluid upward motion. There is no prescribed traditional musical form in which the music develops. Rather, as the description form the Encyclopaedia Britannica suggests, the work is a discovery of flow and motion as form – ever changing, as the forces which work with it exert their influences.
“Only in the present century has the atmosphere been seen as a large fluid system, the behaviour of which is primarily determined by the need for a poleward transfer of heat.”
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume XII, Macropaedia
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Additional Information:
This is the original chamber orchestra version of the piece. There is also a full orchestra version.
This is the original chamber orchestra version of the piece. There is also a full orchestra version.