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SKELETON KEY
from Skeleton Key-SAMPLE
by Tapspace
For Four Or More Percussionists
Skeleton Key by Brian Nozny © 2022 Tapspace Music (BMI). All rights reserved.
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Program Notes
Skeleton Key was composed during the early summer of 2014 just before my first year of teaching at the Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin. Written at the request of Ben Wahlund, his idea was for a large ensemble piece that could use a number of different “found instruments” unique to Birch Creek (everday items whose function isn’t musical in nature).
The piece was written with generalized sounds in mind, and then once I got to Birch Creek (which is situated on an old farm with the barn as the main performance space), I had the chance to hunt around for various sounds that might work. The final piece ended up using pieces of scaffolding, wheelbarrows, planks of wood, sheet metal, and gardening tools, just to name a few.
—Brian Nozny
