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Ewfas
RSN:
68778
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Composition Date:
2013
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:06:00
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Programme Notes
Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 6160 P511ew
Genre
Brass, Solo / Ensemble, Misc. Septets, Octets, Nonets, Including Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2014-05-20
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
Written for and dedicated to Foothills Brass
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
1 score (23 p.) ;
10 parts ([16] p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 6 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
48329
Brass
Trumpet
2
48329
Brass
Horn
1
48329
Brass
Trombone
1
48329
Brass
Tuba
1
48329
Percussion
Timpani
1
48329
Percussion
Percussion
4
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
Calgary, Alberta Canada River Park Church March 8, 2014 Foothills Brass
See Also
69580, Ewfas, AR3193, Laura Pettigrew, 00:06:07
Ewfas was written for and dedicated to Foothills Brass with the assistance of a grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board and premiered in concert March 8, 2014, to celebrate International Women’s Day featuring works by women composers from around the world."Ewfas" (Earth, Wind, Fire, Air, and Space also representing the elements metal, wood and water) is a programmatic work. Each Women Who Faces Adversity Sustains Strength, Survives, Succeeds. Given I am visual the intent in my work was to paint a picture for the listener evoking the images in my mind’s eye and the emotion in my soul as they relate to the essential elements of life (Earth. Wind/Water, Fire, Air, Space), strength of the human spirit as a whole and specifically as women, our innate need to nurture and our strength to excel and succeed in our chosen path in life and as mothers.The philosophy behind the five elements and their use for healing purposes is that everything in the world is made up of a combination of them and through this interconnectivity, each and every thing has certain characteristics that are linked to the elements. 1.Earth - mother earth in all her majesty the elements of which sustain and nourish us as beings. 2. Wind, a seminal force when harnessed provides a source of energy used for power, communications and pumping water. Wind as a source of pollination (anemophily) is a derived condition in flowering plants and has arisen independently in numerous families. Charles Darwin was perplexed by the evolution of this seemingly inefficient pollination mechanism from animal pollination, and yet this transition is commonplace among angiosperm families. Wind pollination has evolved at least 65 times from animal-pollinated ancestors, and approx. 10 % of angiosperm species rely on wind pollination 3. Fire is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science and commonly associated with the qualities of energy, assertiveness and passion. Fire is hot and dry in temperament, and its role in nature is to rarefy, refine, and inter mingle things. It has the power to penetrate and can ride through the element of air and the capacity to overcome the coldness of the two cold elements, earth and water, thus creates and maintains harmony among the elements. 4.Air - oxygen the very chemical element we as beings require to live. Nearly all the Earth's atmosphere is made up of only five gases: nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, argon, and carbon dioxide and 99 percent of air is made up of nitrogen and oxygen.Air - oxygen / metal - brass instruments - used to create the most majestic palette of colours known only to the family of brass instruments. Through a composer’s work brass instrumentalists utilizing the full spectrum of hues and colours evoke emotion giving rise to and allowing the listener to experience the composer’s intent. 5.Space - as an element of art, space refers to distances or areas around, between or within components of a Space. It’s a strange and different element. It’s just there. We can’t see it, we can’t touch it and we can’t say how far it extends. We can’t even say what, if anything, it’s made of. According to Einstein it expands and contracts depending on what velocity we’re moving at, and it gets bent out of shape by the presence of solid matter. Einstein, in one of his less mathematical and more religious moments stated "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe” —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness"Beginning as a quintet to celebrate International Women’s Day it was important to contrive a title for the work containing five letters given “Women” contains five letters, thus Ewfas. As the premiere was scheduled March 8, 2014 the numerical factor became more prominent in that the day of the month (8th) minus the month of the year (March) the 3rd month totalled Five. In the totality of the work the tonal centers used are significant as they stem from the two vowels in Ewfas, including sections employing quintal harmony, and in essence based around a circle of 5ths - b flat minor, f minor, F major, c minor, g minor, D major, a flat minor and e minor, While creating the work incorporating percussion the ensemble grew from a quintet to a septet thus representing a total of 7 elements: earth, wind, fire, air, space, metal and wood. And the intervals, chords incorporated numerically represent the number of letters in the actual elements, the ensemble and tonal centers in addition to the total of the numbers in the year 2014.Wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water and water then generates wood. This is the circle of life so to speak, it is endless.
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