TIMESPAN, 1986

Duration, 14 minutes

Brass Quintet

MOVEMENTS:

Rondeau Squared

Ancient Calls

Shining Metal

The remembrance of time spent viewing the stone circles and standing stones of Scotland and Dartmoor where I could almost hear the eerie sounds of primitive horn calls floating across the hills, and of a day at Stonehenge where a mystifyingly modern cosmological knowledge on the part of Bronze Age people seems in evidence, inspired an interest in combining the ancient and primitive with the space-age. Rondeau Squared follows the rondeau form of the 13th century French Trouvères which exploited basically the alternation between chorus and soloist and had two thematic ideas. My contemporary version is elaborated so that each section of the large rondeau form is, in itself, a small rondeau form. Of the three movements, Ancient Calls was written first. While writing it, I became interested in making a connection between the ancient and the contemporary. Ancient Calls reminded me of the bleak hills and ancient yet modern stone markings and sight lines found in Dartmoor and Scotland. It uses multiphonics and changing vowel sounds and recurrent permutations of aggregates involving the perfect fifth. Shining Metal leaves the ancient behind and is a space age maze of rhythmic complexities presented through the utilization of three short motivic ideas.

on Crystal Records, 1991 - CD 563

The New Mexico Brass Quintet

Performances:

WCLV, 9/19/98, (part of an hour program of her music aired nationally via the Internet)

WCLV, 3/28/98, (part of an hour program of her music aired nationally via the Internet)

Chestnut Brass Company, Logan Chamber Music Series, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, 7/97

Above performance aired on Buffalo, New York station with interview

Women's Phil Brass Quintet, Brass with Class, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA 3/7/98

MOSTLY NEW MUSIC Chamber Music Series, Manhattan Brass Qnt, 4/18/96

Chestnut Brass Company, Southwestern and Midwest Tour, 1/94

Chestnut Brass Company, Subscription Concert Series, Philadelphia, PA, 12/6/93

Chestnut Brass Company, Settlement House, Philadelphia, PA, 12/4/93

Chestnut Brass Company, Baltimore, MD, 12/3/93

Iowa Brass Quintet, Iowa University, Iowa City, IA, 11/8/93

Community Concert Series, Iowa Brass Quintet, Charitin, IA, 10/17/93

Chamber Brass of Boston, International Women's Brass Conference, St. Louis, MI, 5/29/93

Appalachian State University, Contemporary Music Festival, Boone, NC, 4/22/93

Contemporary Music Ensemble, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH, 2/14/93

Quercus Brass Quintet, UC Berkeley, CA, 10/14/92

Crystal Records, Inc., CD, New Mexico Brass Quintet, 8/91

Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Brass Quintet,Walhalla, MI, 8/17/91

University of Texas/Arlington, Arlington, VA, 3/7/91

Madison Brass Faculty Concert, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 3/27/90

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 2/8/90

Concert Guild Series, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, 11/7/89

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, New Mexico Brass Quintet,11/6/89

University of New Mexico, Keller Hall Series, Albuquerque, NM, 10/30/89

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 4/18/89

Mid-Atlantic meeting of The College Music Society, College Park, MD, 3/31/89

Interlochen National Music Camp, Interlochen, MI, 8/11/88

Keller Hall Series, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 4/18/88

Sante Fe Concert Association, Sante Fe, NM, 4/10/88

Composer's Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 3/29/88

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 2/15/88

Carmel Mission, CA, 11/29/87

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 11/13/87

San Francisco, COMPOSER'S INC., New Albion Brass Quintet, 10/6/87

Buffalo, NY, June-in-Buffalo, Norwood Brass Quintet, 6/21/86

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2/25/86