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Fixed Doubles
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-362097-1
05 July 1990
Price: Available on request
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for full orchestra Forces or CategoryFull orchestraDuration8 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestrationpicc, 2 fl, 3 ob, 3 cl (III+bcl), 3 bn (III+cbn), 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, 3 perc (marac, SD, xylo, w blk, sus cym, glock, tamb, slapstick, BD), timp, hp, pn (+cel), strProgramme NotesFixed
Doubles was commissioned by the Royal Northern College of Music, and was completed in the summer of 1989.
As a student at the college, I attended all the concerts given by the symphony orchestra as well as many of its rehearsals. This was good training. As a result, I became familiar with a large chunk of the orchestral repertoire (I particularly remember one frighteningly exciting performance of the Rite of Spring) and learned more about how an orchestra works at that time than at any time since.
Fixed Doubles is an energetic and joyful response to those years at the RNCM. Essentially, it is an 8 minute moto perpetuo; the pulse and movement rarely slacken. Against this, the ideas flit in and out of one another, almost always in canon, contracting and expanding, and
inhabiting a fairly static harmonic space they are circular, immobile in this sense fixed'. Doubles' hints strongly at the playful nature of much of the music. Eventually, there is nothing to do but stop, on a loud, brassy major 2nd.
The piece is dedicated to two close American friends, David Rakowski and Beth Wiemann, on the occasion of their wedding.
© Martin Butler
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Martin Butler (b.1960) Martin Butler was born in Romsey, England, in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From 1998-1999 Martin was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex.
Butler's works are widely performed and broadcast both in the UK and abroad.More on Martin Butler from the British Music Information Centre
Martin Butler at the University of Sussex
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