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2015
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Chamber Works

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Chamber Works

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Soldier's Tale Septet

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9'

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Faced with the challenge of writing for the peculiar instrumentation made famous by Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat, I thought of the broken consort of early music. Broken consorts feature a mixture of instrument families, but not enough of anything to constitute something like an orchestra. In this sound world I thought of the famous L'homme Armé tune on which countless renaissance masses were based, and I thought it would be an interesting sidewise glance at Stravinsky's famous work about a soldier to base a work for the same instrumentation on a tune called, “the armed man.” I've always found the juxtaposition of this military street call with the sacred angelic sounds of renaissance counterpoint to be a particularly interesting feature of works containing the L'homme Armé tune. In my setting I focused on this dichotomy.

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duration

9'

instrumentation

Soldier's Tale Septet

premiered by

Exceptet

commissioned by

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Faced with the challenge of writing for the peculiar instrumentation made famous by Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat, I thought of the broken consort of early music. Broken consorts feature a mixture of instrument families, but not enough of anything to constitute something like an orchestra. In this sound world I thought of the famous L'homme Armé tune on which countless renaissance masses were based, and I thought it would be an interesting sidewise glance at Stravinsky's famous work about a soldier to base a work for the same instrumentation on a tune called, “the armed man.” I've always found the juxtaposition of this military street call with the sacred angelic sounds of renaissance counterpoint to be a particularly interesting feature of works containing the L'homme Armé tune. In my setting I focused on this dichotomy.

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