Richard Burdick's I Ching Music

Chamber Symphony No.5 'The Unimaginable' - Parts, Op.124

SM-000227397
Composer
Richard Burdick
Publisher
I Ching Music
Genre
Classical / Symphonic music
Instrumentation
Piano, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass, Marimba
Scored for
Chamber orchestra
Type of score
Parts
Movement(s)
1 to 4 from 4
Duration
20'0"
Difficulty
Advanced
Year of composition
2002

Description
You can watch the demo here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTIBGBHNHU

For clarinet, bassoon, 3 natural horns. marimba, piano and strings

The first movement "Moderato" was written in 2002. In 2015 when I spent a few months organizing my chamber symphonies, I wrote the final three movements. Taking inspiration from the contrasting keys of the natural horns, the mixing of the harmonies is quite interesting.
I tried to keep the horn parts quite simplpe.

Movement two was written in 2015.

Movement three was constructed by finding the consonant harmonies resulting from the harmonic series' of the three different natural horn keys. It is titled "Thirty-Three Rising" because it has around 33 simple overlapping arpegios. In a key of A. Written in 2015.

Movement four is a fugue.

Performance notes:
There are quite a lot of fast polyrythyms it this work. I don't expect much more than tremelos in the faster groups of these.

Upload date
19 Jun 2015

Price

Sheet music file
99.00 USD
PDF, 7.31 Mb (117 p.)

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