Robert Martin
Woodwind Quartet No. 7
Those Times
The seventh wind quartet was completed in 2002 and is fashioned after a childhood memory of a chaotic and impromptu music experience. "I remembered a childrens birthday party where several sisters, who had taken music lessons, were pushing each other off a piano bench in order to have a brief turn playing easy tunes. This artless ruckus turned out to be an exciting 'performance' despite being unplanned. The girls were laughing, pushing, shoving, struggling, even banging and pounding, while managing to render chopped-up tune fragments from pieces that were popular at the time." The result is a single-movement quartet, where "surrealism is based on non-surrealistic reality." For advanced performers. Dur.: 9'15"
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb (score in C), Bassoon
Woodwind Quartet
Score and Part(s)
Publisher: Theodore Presser Co
CF:144-40570
Custom print. Please contact us for current price and availabity.
Woodwind Quartet No. 7
Those Times
The seventh wind quartet was completed in 2002 and is fashioned after a childhood memory of a chaotic and impromptu music experience. "I remembered a childrens birthday party where several sisters, who had taken music lessons, were pushing each other off a piano bench in order to have a brief turn playing easy tunes. This artless ruckus turned out to be an exciting 'performance' despite being unplanned. The girls were laughing, pushing, shoving, struggling, even banging and pounding, while managing to render chopped-up tune fragments from pieces that were popular at the time." The result is a single-movement quartet, where "surrealism is based on non-surrealistic reality." For advanced performers. Dur.: 9'15"
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb (score in C), Bassoon
Woodwind Quartet
Score and Part(s)
Publisher: Theodore Presser Co
CF:144-40570
Custom print. Please contact us for current price and availabity.