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Circadia
RSN:
67335
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Composition Date:
2003
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:10:30
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Programme Notes
Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 8775 L477ci
Genre
Mixed Septets, Woodwind(s) / Brass / Percussion / Keyboard(s) / Bowed String(s)
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2013-03-27
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
7 parts ([37] p.) ;
1 score (32 p.) ; 22 x 28 cm.
Instrumentation
Daniels Instrumentation
1 0 0 0, sax - 0 0 1 0 - vib - org - db
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
44125
Larger ensemble
Chamber Ensemble
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
Vancouver, BC Vancouver Playhouse 29 Mar 2003 Vancouver New Music Ensemble Giorgio Maganensi, conductor
See Also
59385, Circadia, AR2450, Brent Lee, 00:14:58
In beginning a new work, the choice of instruments is almost invariably made by the commissioner rather than the composer. Thus it is a rare and much appreciated opportunity to compose a work for Vancouver New Music and score it for several of my favourite instruments: alto flute, soprano sax, flugelhorn, tenor trombone, vibraphone, contrabass, and Hammond organ.Circadia is something of a neologism, a combination of circadian (“designating physiological activity which occurs approximately every twenty-four hours, or the rhythm of such activity” - OED) and Arcadia (“the ideal region of rural contentment” -OED). I don’t know too much about rural contentment, but I do appreciate the natural rhythms of the day and especially the simultaneous repetition and endless variety in the passage of time day by day. This idea is the genesis of the work: cycles of repetition and variation, changes of colour and texture. The chosen wind instruments share a rich middle register, allowing musical gestures to be passed from one instrument to another and for harmonies to be re-orchestrated without being restructured.Research has indicated that while circadian rhythms are acquired in animal activity, they are a physiological necessity for plants, specifically the alternation of periods of light and darkness. This alternation is also an aspect of the central metaphor in this piece, both on a musical level and by extension on a personal and spiritual level. - BL
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