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Mixed Ensemble
Martin Butler
Carillon
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-355784-0 26 July 1998
Price:
Available on request
for piano, clarinet, and vibraphone
Forces or Category
Ensemble
Duration
10 minutes
Difficulty
Moderately difficult
Orchestration
cl, vib, pn
Programme Notes
Carillon
was commissioned by the Brighton Festival for the Composers Ensemble, and is scored for clarinet, vibraphone and piano. It was written in October 1997.
Carillon
is a short, fanfare-like prelude with a quiet extended coda. As its title implies, the musical substance of the piece derives from the sound of pealing bells; this is obvious from the extensive use of bell-like attacks on the vibraphone and piano along with reverberation created by the use of the sustaining pedals on both these instruments. But bell-ringing also influences the melodic and harmonic character of the piece, in particular through the pervasive use of a simple, descending scale. The rhythmic kinks and syncopations that usually articulate these descending lines are inspired by the observation that, in the entire history of bell-ringing, no group of bell-ringers has, it seems, ever managed to ring in an even rhythm.
© Martin Butler 1998
Reproduced with 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.
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