Sounder Rounds
| Year | 1983 |
| Publisher | Edition Peters |
| Program Notes | [This score was previously self-published by Earle Brown. It is available in print from Edition Peters as of 2007.] The three works are each based on a relatively simple sonic condition which is compositionally explored by fragmentation, juxtaposition, collage techniques and variations which can be made in the actual conducting of the works. As in many of my works, this piece is basically “closed form” but has areas in which the basic composed material can be sequenced and juxtaposed spontaneously by the conductor. This potential for a work I originally (in 1952) called, “mobile score,” as influenced first by Alexander Calder, but is now generally referred to in music as, “open-form”…the actual final form of each performance being different and unique but always being recognizable as this particular work due to the unchanging basic composed material content. In concept it is similar to viewing many aspects and details of a sculpture as one walks around it at different speeds and in different directions, or (as in my original influence from Calder) as the elements of a “mobile” constantly change in relation to each other. The “relatively simple” elements of SOUNDER ROUNDS are rather dense “streams” of sound which expand, contract, separate, change shape and color, and “fields of vertical aggregates (chords) which a German critic has referred to as “sound columns” in writing of other of my works. —Earle Brown |
| More Information | Instrumentation Orchestra: 2 (Fl,Alt)-3 (3.EH)-3 (3.B.Kl)-2 (2.Kontra) / 4-3-2-1 / Perc. (Glock.,Vib.,Xyl.,Mar.,), Pn, Hf / Str: 12-10-8-6-4 (all string parts divisi a 2) Browse the full score here |
| Selected Performances | 1983-05-11 Saarbruecken, Germany Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbruecken Conductor: Earle Brown, world premiere 1983-05-12 Saarbruecken, Germany Ensemble: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbruecken Conductor: Earle Brown |