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Hegemony, Randall Snyder
Hegemony, Randall Snyder
Randall Snyder Compositions
For piano and orchestra 1973 - revised 2018
Instrumentation: Flute 1, Flute 2 - Piccolo, Flute 3 - Alto Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2 - Eb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone - Tenor Saxophone, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2 - Contrabassoon, Bb Trumpet, Horn, Tromsone, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Percussion 3, Percussion 4, Harp, Piano Solo, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violin 3, Violin 4, Viola 1, Viola 2, Cello 1, Cello 2, Double Bass 1, Double Bass 2
Notes: This score is notated in concert pitch, all instruments sounding as written except piccolo, xylophone, …
Animè, Randall Snyder
Animè, Randall Snyder
Randall Snyder Compositions
For Piccolo/Flute, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb, and Bassoon
Animè (animated) is a 4 minute scherzo whose relentless 16th note moto perpetuo rhythm is interrupted only by short cadenzas by bassoon, English horn, flute, and clarinet. The wheels seem to come off towards the anarchic end with faster rhythmic subdivisions.
The work was recorded by Iwona Glinka and the Gdansk Trio.
"Animated"
This work is a revision of Logoriffic Tropes (2011).
Diversions, Randall Snyder
Diversions, Randall Snyder
Randall Snyder Compositions
Instrumentation: Flute 1 (Picc.), Flute 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Bb Clarinet 1, Bb Clarinet 2, Bassoon 1, Bassoon 2, Horn 1, Horn 2, Bb Trumpet 1, Bb Trumpet 2, Trombone 1, Trombone 2, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Duration c. 6 minutes
Program note: This music references the dual meaning of the title: - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates (e.g. Divertimento); - a turning aside of your course or attention or concern; "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from the goal"
Transposed score …
Legong Variations, Randall Snyder
Legong Variations, Randall Snyder
Randall Snyder Compositions
Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Bb Trumpet, Vibraphone, Piano
Program note: Legong Variations are comprised of over two dozen reiterations of an Javanese melody, its overall shape a modified palindrome, with variants becoming more and more dislocated, venturing further and further from the original tune before reversing the process and returning back to the initial theme. This is also reflected in the sequence of ever-increasing then descreasing tempi. Much of the ensemble writing is meant to suggest the heterophonic texture of the Indonesian Gamelan.
Duration: c. 5 minutes
(winner 2019 McMurry New Music Project)
"Redolent"
Janus Quintet, Randall Snyder
Janus Quintet, Randall Snyder
Randall Snyder Compositions
For Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Horn, and Bassoon.
This piece opens with an intoning of a series of seven notes F F# Eb (F) E A B, each serving as the pitch center for the following set of variations, The intervals of the "theme" are used to generate vertical and horizontal sonorities. The form is a modified palindrome. The variations share similar styles with their complimentary pairings:
I - VII
II - VI
III - V
(IV)
The fourth variation is a nested palindrome standing alone without a pairing.
This quintet is a reworking of a 1967 piece for piano …