Dialectics

by
Brian Harman

Ensemble: Wind Ensemble

Grade: 6

Duration: 13:00

Year of Composition: 2006

Premiered by: Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (Keiko Kobayashi, conductor)

Date of Premiere: November 8, 2009

Publisher: Canadian Music Centre

Year of Publication: 2010

Publisher Catalog Number: MI 1800 H2875di

Available: Yes

How to Acquire: Publisher, Purchase

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Sample Audio

 

Instrumentation

Flutes 1,2,3
Oboes 1,2
Bassoons 1,2
B♭ Clarinets 1,2,3,4
B♭ Bass Clarinet
E♭ Alto Saxes 1,2
B♭ Tenor Sax
E♭ Baritone Sax
B♭ Trumpets 1,2,3
F Horns 1,2,3,4
Trombones 1,2,3
Euphonium
Tuba
Double Bass
Percussion 1,2,3


Program Notes:

Dialectics, for wind ensemble, is influenced by and based on the phenomenon of acoustic reverberation. The work recreates and combines various natural sonic events in poetic ways, generating a striking sound world composed of quarter-tones and natural brass tuning. Two opposing musical ideas are presented in the piece. The first – melodic heterophony – is inspired by the many nearly simultaneous echoes that combine to form the reverberation of a sound. The second musical idea stretches out the process of reverberation in time and explores the attack, sustain and decay of various contrasting harmonies. The pitch material for the work is based entirely on the harmonic series and various compressions, expansions, and inversions of it.

(Program note courtesy of Canadian Music Centre)