PETER JAMES LEARN APOLLONIAN ECHO For Mixed Octet
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APOLLONIAN ECHO For Mixed Octet
PETER JAMES LEARN
APOLLONIAN ECHO PERFORMANCE NOTES - Trills are to the half-step above, unless otherwise indicated. - Glissandi occupy the full duration of initial note, evenly.
PROGRAM NOTE The title of Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schรถnberger's 2006 book on Stravinsky, The Apollonian Clockwork, is an allusion to the composer's Neo-Classical period and is a particularly apt turn of phrase. His Octet for Winds, from the early years of this phase, is indeed a starkly contrasting swing of his artistic pendulum away from the Dionysian Primitivism of his earlier works. Gone were the violent and impassioned utterrances of the Rite and Firebird, in favor of a more restrained style and reinterpretation of Classical form. This period was also a time when Stravinsky moved away from the dramatic stage in favor of absolute music, particularly focusing on chamber music. The Octet is certainly exemplary of these shiftings of the composer's artistic landscape, cast as it is in Classical forms and couched in a vocabulary that, while still adventurous and fresh, owes much of its syntax to the tonal realm. While my octet here certainly borrows a pattern of pitches or motive here and there from Stravinsky's, it is more of an artistic response to the idea of the work. An attempt, as it were, to create an Apollonian clockwork of my own, in my musical language. The allusions to Stravinsky's Octet are therefore often intentionally obscured, existing more as a personal homage on my part than an attempt at referential quotation, although there are a few gems that are set prominently into the texture, deployed in a roughly reveresed chronology from their appearance in the original work. I hope that, while certainly not making a conscious attempt to write in the Neo-Classical idiom, I have nevertheless succeeded to some degree in striving for an Apollonian ideal in this work. And I like to think the master wouldn't mind my reflections of his motives; after all, in Stravinsky's own words, "A good composer does not imitate, he steals." (Ca. 7')
APOLLONIAN ECHO
(Score is Transposed)
Adagio, time out of time
Flute
Oboe
Horn in F
senza vib.
solo
Viola
Bass
senza vib.
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solo
senza vib.
solo
senza vib.
Cello
senza vib.
Violin 2
senza vib.
Adagio, time out of time
Violin 1
For Mixed Octet
PETER JAMES LEARN (b. 1982) BMI
poco
poco
gl.
gl.
3
3
APOLLONIAN ECHO
2 Solemn, a little faster
(with Vln.'s primary line)
9
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
(primary line)
Solemn, a little faster
APOLLONIAN ECHO
17
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
Allegro
vib. ord.
A
(subsidiary, support horn and strings)
Allegro ord. (no break)
3
ord.
ord. ord.
ord.
4
26
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
Fl.
33
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
pizz.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
poco
B
pizz.
5
ECHO APOLLONIAN 41
6 Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
arco
loco
arco
49
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
C
Spirited
(support viola)
Spirited
7
8 55
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
59
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
9 D
APOLLONIAN ECHO
pull bow away, letting string vibrate
10 63
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
(sim.)
fltng.
(as possible)
69
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
jaunty and soloistic
Vlc.
Cb.
jaunty and soloistic
APOLLONIAN ECHO
11
12
APOLLONIAN ECHO
E
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
riten.
ord.
primary line, with flute
Ominous, ma cantabile ()
riten.
()
Fl.
73
3 primary line, with horn
Ominous, ma cantabile
senza vib., like a viol
senza vib., like a viol
senza vib., like a viol
3
senza vib., like a viol
79
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
primary line
(blend)
ord.
primary line
senza vib., like a viol
13
senza vib. (blend)
(blend)
(blend)
14
85
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
accel.
ord.
ord.
ord.
ord.
accel.
ord.
()
()
91
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
F
APOLLONIAN ECHO
poco
15
poco
APOLLONIAN ECHO
16
98
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
poco
3
Molto Pesante
accel.
accel.
Molto Pesante
gl.
gl.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
G
17
Rhythmic and playful 107
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
()
Rhythmic and playful
()
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
pizz.
pizz.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
18
Ob.
Hn.
113
Fl.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
arco
mart. mart.
118
Fl.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vlc.
Cb.
arco
Vla.
H
Ob.
19
20
122
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
125
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
ord.
stopped, brassy
21
ord.
22
128
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
6
APOLLONIAN ECHO
open
rit.
rit.
I 136
APOLLONIAN ECHO ()
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
()
senza vib.
Pensive
Vln. 1
23
Pensive
APOLLONIAN ECHO
24
142
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
(as possible)
poco accel., very subtly pushing tempo
poco accel., very subtly pushing tempo
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
al pont.
sul pont
ord.
al pont.
s.p
ord.
147
Fl.
Ob.
Hn.
Vln. 1
Vln. 2
Vla.
Vlc.
Cb.
APOLLONIAN ECHO
(not s.p.)
() rit. al fine
25
() rit. al fine
- FEBRUARY 2014, MIAMI