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Martin Butler
Relay
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355781-9 13 September 1996
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Available on request
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for percussion ensemble
Forces or Category
Percussion ensemble
Duration
10 minutes
Difficulty
Moderately difficult
Orchestration
4 perc (cas, 2 toy dr or bongo, reception bells or Chinese cym, cabasa, ratchet, whip, 2 cencerros, 2 anvils, 2 w blks, tri, marac, vibraslap, scaffold bar, 2 cbells, Chinese cym or tri, sleighbells, guiro, 2 toy pn, tamb, 2 temp blks, sus cym, spoons, washboard or guiro)
Programme Notes
Relay
was commissioned by Ensemble Bash with funds provided by the London Arts Board, and completed in July 1995.
Although scored entirely for untuned percussion, it is intended to sound like an intimate, if energetic, piece of chamber music. The quartet is consistently divided into pairs of players who pass rhythmic material back and forward (like a relay) in ever more intricate ways as the material develops.
All instruments used are small, either hand-held or mounted, and include one or two novelties (toy pianos and spoon, for example) - one of the briefs given to the composer by Ensemble Bash was that each player should be able to squeeze all his instruments into a duffle-bag.
© Martin Butler
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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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