Red Dirt Silver Rain (2015) Melody Eötvös. for Chamber Orchestra. Duration: approx. 12 minutes

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1 Red Dirt Silver Rain was commissioned by the League o American Orchestras and American Comosers Orchestra with the generous suort o the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Red Dirt Silver Rain or Chamber Orchestra Duration: arox. 12 minutes (2015) Melody Eötvös (812) melodyeotvos.com melody.eotvos@hotmail.com Melody Eötvös 2015 melodyeotvos.com

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3 INSTRUMENTATION LIST: Flute (Piccolo) English Horn B lat Clarinet (B lat Bass Clarinet) Bassoon F Horn C Trumet Trombone Tuba Timani 2 Percussion* Piano Strings (min ) * Percussion Listing: Percussion 1: Vibrahone, Almglocken (D-lat, F, G-lat, A-lat, C), Susended Chinese Cymbal, Small Susended Slash Cymbal with sizzle, Tam-tam (share with Percussion 2), Tambourine, Triangle Percussion 2: Tam-tam (shared with Percussion 1), Crotales, Triangle, Glock, Bass Drum, Small Susended Slash Cymbal with sizzle (share with Percussion 1), Large Susended Cymbal, Tubular Bells, Tom-toms (4), Snare Drum. iii

4 NOTATION INFORMATION: Accidentals: Accidentals last or the duration o a bar. Courtesy accidentals will aear in arenthesis. Flute: Overblow to harmonics, imrov unevenly in uer artials the contour illustrated in the score is only an examle. Play the artials in an unredictable wave-like manner. The only excetion to this is in mm where the rhythm and harmonics are more clearly notated. Flz. = lutter-tongue Glissandi during lz. should carry across and last the length indicated by the gliss line. Gradual change in tone color = Full tone (illed in small circle) to breathy/air tone (white noise, oen small circle). Bass Clarinet: Make note o the tremolo to key # 12 or #1 (i.e. mm.8). This eect should never be layed too loud, but try to get a little dynamic variation according to what is indicated in the score at the time. Trumet: Harmon mute stem removed: O etc. = Slowly cover the oen end o the mute with hand (towards +) across the duration o the dashed line, then slowly remove again (towards O ) across the duration o the dashed line. Timani: Always l.v. unless otherwise indicated (+) For long successions o glissandi, timani size has been indicated. Percussion 1 & 2: Always l.v. unless otherwise indicated (+) Piano: Inside Piano strings can be lucked with ingers (reerably with a little bit o ingernail). Strings: Any artiicial harmonic gliss should always be a glissandi o the stoed itch as well as the harmonic, even i there aren t two gliss lines indicating so. Trills to a harmonic-shaed note head = lightly touch the indicated lace (harmonic note head in arenthesis) on the string to make the trill: Trill raidly alternating the inger ressure between normal and a lighter touch used with harmonics. Glissandi during tremolos should carry across and last the length indicated by the gliss line. Some o these will be very slow changes. iv

5 PROGRAM NOTES: This iece was commissioned by the League o American Orchestras and American Comosers Orchestra with the generous suort o the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. The title o this iece reaches back across the Paciic Ocean and into the heart o two memories I have o my homeland. As a child I grew u on Tamborine Mountain (Queensland) where the dirt is a vibrant volcanic red. I was more use to seeing my eet stained with this color than having them in shoes. The second memory is o the torrential downours we would exerience during the summers and o alling aslee to the sound o it elting against the corrugated iron roo. The rhythm o these rain showers, in my recollection amliied by the material o the roo, would luctuate between violent hammering and delicate attering. This iece is most o all about reconstructing memories. These memories hinge around strong sensory moments o my childhood and I have aimed to give them clear motivic/thematic lie within the music. A wonderul henomena that occurs in the recalling o memories is our ability to maniulate and alter the way we may have originally remembered these things the way I remember my dirt red toes the very same evening I washed them clean (erhas I was annoyed that they were still slightly stained red even though I d scrubbed them or ages), will be comletely dierent to how I remember them now (as symbolizing un, reedom, color, warmth, childhood). So the trajectory o the motives/themes across this iece exlore an array o ossibilities and orms in how they can be remembered, recalled, and readjusted sometimes more with the methodical mind o my adult-sel, other times with what I imagine is my care-ree inner child. - Melody Eötvös 2015 v

6 FULL SCORE IN C "Red Dirt Silver Rain" was commissioned by the League o American Orchestras and American Comosers Orchestra with the generous suort o the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Red Dirt Silver Rain or Chamber Orchestra Flute q = 80 Archaically m Melody Eötvös (2015) English Horn Clarinet in Bb Bassoon m m m Horn in F Trumet in C Trombone con sord - straight Tuba Timani Percussion 1 Percussion 2 Vibrahone bowed con sord - straight m m medium yarn mallets n bowed always l.v. Tam-tam n m m Piano Violin I (6) Violin II (5) Viola (4) Violoncello () Contrabass (2) q = 80 m sul ont. sul ont. sul ont. sul ont. sul ont. non divisi m m izz m non divisi non divisi Melody Eötvös 2015 melodyeotvos.com

7 2 Fl. 6 m m m m Cl. m m m m m m C Tt. Tim. m (Vibes) Perc. 2 (T.-t.) m m m non divisi non divisi non divisi I non divisi 5 5 m m m non divisi m m

8 Fl Cl. solo C Tt. m Tim. (Vibes) Perc. 2 (Glock.) hal (light) edal m I non divisi m m m solo m m m

9 8 Fl. 29 m Cl. m m m m C Tt. remove straight mute, relace with harmon stem removed (con sord) (con sord) m m m Tim. (Vibes) m m Perc. 2 I m m m m m m solo tutti ord. solo tutti solo m Bass Drum always l.v. m m tutti solo m solo m tutti m Glockensiel no edal ord. tutti hal (light) edal m m

10 Picc. Cl. C Tt. 5 D q = 69 (con sord) m Red Dirt Silver Rain n To Fl. 1 (con sord) n Tim. Perc. 2 I m always l.v. Small Slash Cymbal with sizzle - glock mallet q = 69 ord. m m (Vibes) (Glock.) sul G harmonic gliss 'seagulls' D m col legno m ad lib. contour o the gliss m ad lib. contour o the gliss Tam-tam col legno sul ont. scrae suerball mallet across surace in random but calm atterns col legno ad lib. contour o the gliss m ad lib. contour o the gliss n col legno n

11 14 Fl. 55 Flute q = 60 m overblow to 6th artial m m m Cl. C Tt. Tim. Perc. 2 (T.-t.) q = 60 solo 1. I 2 solo divisi [desk 1] quasi sul ont. 2 solo divisi [desk 1] quasi sul ont. m m ord. ord. izz

12 16 Fl. Cl. 62 lz. m m overblow m m con sord - straight C Tt. m (con sord.) m (con sord.) m Tim. Perc. 2 (Vibes) (Crot.) m n m n m n m Tam-tam m I m izz m m izz tutti m m m jeté sicc. m m m m m m m sicc. m jeté jeté m m m jeté m m m sul ont. m

13 Fl. 65 accel. 17 m m Cl. m m remove mute C Tt. remove mute m m remove mute m m Tim. Perc. 2 (Vibes) m (T.-t.) Triangle m accel. jeté m m m m m I m m m m

14 27 Fl. 101 m B. Cl. m m C Tt. m m m m m Tim. m m Perc. 2 Almglocken (Mar.) m m m m I

15 28 Fl. 105 H m m B. Cl. m m m m C Tt. con sord - straight mute m (con sord.) m m m m m Tim. Perc. 2 (Alm.) (Mar.) I H m m m m m m

16 2 Fl. B. Cl. 121 m m m m m C Tt. m m m Tim. Perc.1 (Vibes) m Perc. 2 (T-Bells) m I (izz) (izz) m m m m

17 Fl. B. Cl. 126 J Red Dirt Silver Rain m C Tt. m m Tim. Perc.1 Chinese Cym. with vibe mallet Vibrahone m m m Perc. 2 (T-Bells) m J izz izz I izz izz

18 Fl. 144 K q = 18 Red Dirt Silver Rain 7 B. Cl. C Tt. ready straight mute con sord - straight m senza sord. m m Tim. Perc. 2 Tam-tam scrae with triangle beater Vibrahone m m (Cym.) scrae with metal end o brushes m lightly stoed I K q = 18 m m m m

19 8 Fl. 151 m m B. Cl. m m senza sord. remove straight mute m C Tt. m remove mute Tim. m Perc. 2 (Vibes) Tom-toms use hands to cym. Chinese Cym. with vibe mallet m m m I m m m m m m m

20 47 Picc. 229 Cl. m C Tt. m Tim. (Vibes) Perc. 2 Glockensiel m with glock mallets Small susended cymbal m I

21 48 Picc. Tim. Perc. 2 I Tim. Perc. 2 I 26 m ( ) q = 18 m m let sizzle out 24 m m m m Bass Drum q = 18 non divisi m m (Vibes) P Tam-tam P Sizzle Cymbal Red Dirt Silver Rain (even 16th notes) sul ont.

22 Tim. Perc. 2 I (T.-t.) (B.D.) m 49 Cl. Tim. Perc. 2 I Tam-tam una corda ord. m izz izz izz izz Vibrahone izz m

23 67 Picc. 48 Cl. C Tt. Tim. (Vibes) m I m sul ont.

24 68 Picc. 51 Cl. C Tt. Tim. m (Vibes) m Perc. 2 Tam-tam m m m I m m n n