THREE SCENES AMERICAN TROMBONE BRASS ORCHESTRA. Solo Trombone FOR AND ERIC RICHARDS 2008 (BMI)

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1 Solo Trombone THREE SCENES OR AMERICAN TROMBONE AND BRASS ORCHESTRA Written or OSEPH ALESSI and the USA BRASS IN BLUE, SSgt Matthew Erickson, director. ERIC RICHARDS 2008 (BMI) I. Stravousa! II. Hymn III. Una canción de tres Américas 4:00 :20 4:0

2 INSTRUMENTATION SOLO Trombone Bb Trumet I (Bb Piccolo Trumet) Bb Trumet II Bb Trumet III Bb Trumet IV Horn I in Horn 2 in Tenor Trombone Bass Trombone Percussion I (Snare Drum, Susended Cymbal, Drum Set) Percussion II (Bass Drum with Mounted Crash Cymbal, Vibrahone, Tymani)

3 THREE SCENES or AMERICAN TROMBONE and BRASS ORCHESTRA was comosed in Setember The work was commissioned by the USA Brass In Blue or a series o concerts eaturing trombone virtuoso oseh Alessi. As a trombonist, I consider it a rivilege to be asked to write or this artist and grou o extremely gited musicians. In my view, Mr. Alessi is one o the leading ractitioners o the American School o trombone erormance. I have borrowed this term rom the edagogical writings o Sam Burtis, an accomlished and well-resected reelance trombonist/comoser based in New York City. I understand this aroach to trombone erormance as being one in which the artist is able to move eortlessly between the genres o Western art music, jazz, vernacular styles, and world music. As a comoser who deines himsel as a contemorary American eclectic with a strong interest in Third Stream language, this aroach to erormance resonates strongly with my comositional worldview. In this work, I have attemted to crat a iece that moves through various musical styles and sets u a backdro or the soloist to exress a wide range o musical thought and sensibilities. While the artist or whom this work was commissioned is a virtuoso o the highest order (and this iece certainly does have its virtuosic moments!), I oer that my intent irst and oremost was to comose a work that is melodic and exressive. STRAVOUSA, (as the name suggests) is a boisterous march inluenced by two imortant American musical igures o the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky and ohn Phili Sousa. It seems to be a comositional hybrid o ideas develoed rom L'Histoire du Soldat (another work in which the trombone lays a rominent role), The Thunderer, and Pat Metheny's The irst Circle. HYMN is a contemlative movement that seemed to comose itsel. The soloist sings a Dorian chant-like oening which leads into a chorale. This is ollowed by a transormative section inluenced by the language o Aaron Coland. The inal section o the movement restates the oening chant melody in a bright Lydian modality. Although Hymn is only three minutes in length, my hoe or this movement was to deict the siritual concet o Metanoia, the roound change o internal ersective and a desire or reentance made ossible only through the grace o a loving and rovidential Creator. The third scene", UN CANCÍON DE TRES AMERÍCAS (A Song o Three Americas), is a exciting, rhythmic, dance-like iece in trile meter. The inluence o North, Central, and South American musical styles and vocabulary as well as echoes o Leonard Bernstein can be heard clearly in this movement. Much is asked o the soloist in terms o range, rhythmic recision, and energy. It is hoed the soloist, brass orchestra, and listener will have un with this movement! Setember 1, 2008

4 SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 4 I. Stravousa! Energetic March; M.M. h = C 4 2 C C C >. 4 b Perc. Soli b.. b. b.... #. n. A 4 5 C b. > b.. >... b > b. b. b b w > w 5 > C w 59 b. b > b. b. b.. 4 #. n. C >.. b. q = q. w.

5 B w cantabile b 4 5 w b # w >.. b > C >.. > >. 9: q = q n. >.. 94 b w > SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 5 w 98 Solo bḟ. b.. b.. b b b. b >. b. b. 2 C 2 C b >. b. > b.. b. 10 w C 2 C

6 124 nobile b. 125: "Trio" bw.... w w n w. SOLO Trb. - Scenes bw b. b. 5 b.. b.. b... b.. bw b.. b. w b > b. b.... b.. b.. w w > ~~~ b. b. b > > 17 > b w.

7 184 - Maestoso (with a warm, ull sound that doesn't cover the soloist.) b.... b.. Solo b.. b... b.... bw 2 b. SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 7 b w Solo b w >. b > b b. b.. b.. b> w. # w 7 #. #.... #>.. > 7 4 C b. b. b. b b > b. b. b >.. b.. b. b.

8 SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 8 II. Hymn reely and reverently (chant-like); M.M. q = 0 +/ U. " U. ". U. U " 5 8 A temo (rubato); M.M. q = 0 12 molto exressivo oco iu mosso B 27 # # 24 - With assion (Temo I: M.M. q = 0) B # # #. w # # #. iu mosso (gradually winding down...) reely n #. U "

9 4 oco accel. 4 5 # " 4 8 rit. - U # w # morendo U SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 9 #. #

10 SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 10 III. Una canción de tres Américas With great energy and cris rhythm (In one: M.M. h. = 0-72) 1 4 Solo b - b -. DUET w. B. Trb. b b n - A n. cresc. oco a oco > > >.. n > 4 5 > > 4 > b > >. > B: "loating": q = q 2 71 > n lyrically. b b b b > >. n.. 5

11 w # w. w b. > # > # > # # > # C 108 # # # n w w # # # # # n > >. b> b > > b > > > > ~~ ~ 4 5 SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 11 > 4 ~~~ # # # q = q # # # 4 b. b > b > > ~

12 12: OPEN Drums/Perc./Clas Soli (ot. cut to 14) SOLO Trb. - Scenes Otional imrovisation: C Mixolydian or C Lydian Dominant 14 - On CUE: Solo Trb./Drums. ḡradually building... n b > j > -. b. b > > >. Cadenza U. 142 b > > (LAST time: decresc. to 14) j > b > > b > >. b > >. > > - n.. 15 > > n > - b > accel. U "

13 SOLO Trb. - Scenes - 1 n n. U. b U U n U b accel. B rit. ~ ~ U ~~~~~ B bbrilliante 170: A Temo (+) > > b b > > rit. b > b b ot. multihonics ~~~ ~~~ n U " > b > b > > bring it home!

14 SOLO Trb. - Scenes > > b > b> b > > > b > >. stringendo -. b > n > n -. b b > > > B > B 218 b > > > > b>