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solo pft-fl.2asax.tsax-hn.3tpts.3trb-elec.bass
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Boosey & Hawkes (Hendon Music)
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This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world excluding USA.
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World Premiere
21/11/1989
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
De Volharding
Composer's Notes
The components of the drum track of a rap song were taken apart and assigned to each of the sections of the wind ensembles: the saxophones, the trumpets, and the trombones- so that pitches are taking the place of unpitched pop drum machine patterns. The solo piano is the leader, of course, but it is many times interwoven canonically with the ensemble, so that the brass and saxophone form rhythmic echoes of the soloist.
"Rust" means nothing except the tarnished color I associate with the main chord chosen for the piece. Simpler chords are forced out of this basic dissonant chord, a held-back release.
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