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Divisions for Orchestra Full Score - Sebastian Currier

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Currier Divisions for Orchestra Full Score
Currier Divisions for Orchestra Full Score

Componist(en):

Sebastian Currier

Uitgever('s):

Groothandel U.S.A.

Uitgavenummer:

HL48024193

Instrument(en):

Orkestwerken

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DIVISIONS, written for the Seattle Symphony, Boston Symphony, and the National Orchestra of Belgium, is part of a group of pieces commissioned in commemoration of World War I.  I am honored to be the American representative of this primarily European project to find some form of musical commemoration to the gruesome destruction that gripped Europe a century ago.  When I was first approached, I remember mentioning the project to friend and he said, well, that was easy, one should just have total silence.  And of course, in a way, he was right.  That dark time in our collective history is really the antithesis of creative human impulse and it is hard to imagine what place music could have except possibly to once again mourn the dead.  But it is one hundred years later and it seemed to me that the piece should have a connection to the present or even the future as much as look back to this time of unbridled destruction.  My starting point was the rather obvious observation that we humans are a jumble of contradictory impulses; at our best so creative, insightful and altruistic, at our worst so inexplicably short-sighted, destructive and selfish.  DIVISIONS embodies this basic contradiction.  As it unfolds, the musical material moves from fragmentation and fracture, to wholeness and connectedness.  The word “divisions” points to this process.  It first simply refers to the destructive force whereby we humans work against each other instead of together.  World War I is certainly an all too familiar instance. “Divisions” also has its military associations, as in a “division” of troops.  But it also has a much more benign reference in the world of music: a “divisions” is an early form of instrumental variations from the 16th century.  The term comes from the fact that in each successive variation, as the level of ornamentation increases, there are smaller and smaller note values, so that the beat is further “divided.”  In my piece the trajectory is from the one meaning of the word to the other.  After an opening of disjunction and fracture, the piece finally settles down into a set of simple variations.  However, this movement towards wholeness proves ephemeral.  The drum beat of war is never far off.   

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Componist(en):

Sebastian Currier

Uitgever('s):

Groothandel U.S.A.

Uitgavenummer:

HL48024193

Instrument(en):

Orkestwerken

ISBN:

888680706012

9781540001191

Volgnummer:

916458

Thema('s):

Boosey & Hawkes

Partituur/Fullscore

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