Some Select Contemporary Works
to view and print Scores
Requiem-Introit
[duration: ca. 5min.]
SAATB choir, Tenor and Alto soloists, 8 celli, 8 violas and tape [sheet music: Download]
Diptych [duration: ca. 6 min.]
solo clarinet [sheet music: movement I & movement II]
- Winner of the IMRO prize for Composition at the 1998 RTE Young
Musician of the Future Contest.
- Winning performance of the Contemporary Music Cup at the 1998 Siemens Nixdorf Feis Ceoil.
Innocent Marpl [duration: ca.12min.]
Violin and some tape! [sheet music: movement I & movement II]
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Commissioned by the Latvian Ministry of Arts & Culture
The Persistence
of Memory [duration: ca. 4min 30sec.]
Clarinet / saxophone quartet and tape. [sheet music: Download]
- Selected for performance at the SBCM-IV in Brasilia, Brasil, by the Brasilia
Saxophone Quartet, 1997.
- Selected for performance at the 1st Electro-acoustic Festival of Cadiz,
Spain, by the ITALICA saxophone quartet, 1998.
Tremolo Mystique [duration: ca. 6min.]
violin, cello, piano and tape [sheet music: Download]
Reflections
of Prague [duration: ca. 8min.]
solo piano
An Gort Mhor-The Great
Famine(1846-48) [duration: ca.
13 min.]
Soprano, Clarinet, piano and optional electronics and tape [sheet music: Movements I - III]
- Finalist: International Clarinet Association Composition Competition, 1998
Lolita [duration:
ca. 6min.]
clarinet, cello, piano ****[sheet music: Download]
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory [duration: ca. 8min.]
Clarinet / saxophone quartet and tape. ****[sheet music: Download]
- Commissioned by the Czech Clarinet Quartet with funding provided by the Art's Council of Ireland's New Music Commissioning Scheme, 1999.
Contemporary Music Discussed
An Gort Mhor -The Great Famine(1846-48)
A trio for Clarinet Soprano and Piano, (optional electonics and tape/sampler).It is based on the libretto by the composer. The piece is in three movements - each running into the next. The libretto tells the story of a lady in the devastating Irish famine of the 1840's. ****[sheet music: movements I - III]****
Diptych
Written as part of the second and third International Summer program of Composition in Prague, Czech Republic, Diptych is a two movement work. The first is a rhythmic deveropment of a 4 note idiom. The second movement, the longer of the two, is more melodically based, while embracing elements of the first movement. ****[sheet music: movement I & movement II]****
Innocent Marpl is a 2 movement piece telling the tail of the crazy composer, using celtic and contemporary musical interpretational tools. ****[sheet music: movement I & movement II]****
Lolita
Lolita is a one movement piece for Clarinet Cello and
Piano. It is written in a wholetone scale, beginning on C#, and is a development of the opening idea that is heard on cello. Elements of rock and traditional music are incorporated, forming an energetic zestful new sound which was composed while reading the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov. The music reflects upon the Lolita charachter in the book, who is bold, playful, innocent, crafty and repressed. ****[sheet music: Download Score]****
Reflections of Prague
Written over two summers in Prague, it is in two movements, each being based on a different garden in Prague - the first based on the Wallenstein Gardens, and the second based on the Royal Gardens. As a 2 movement work, I feel it closely causes the reflections and contemplations of Prague that I wished for.
Requiem - Introit
Written for tape, SAATB choir, Alto and Tenor soloists and Cellos
and Violas. The tape part uses a new timbre, which I've called a chorgan- a morph between a childs voice and an organ. The piece reflects
on the innocence of a child in this situation, while continuing to treate
the requiem in its traditional fashion. ****[sheet music: Download Requiem - Introit]****
The Persistence of Memory
Can be performed either by 4 clarinets or 4 saxophones AND tape. It is based on the painting of the same name by Salvador Dali. Both examine the irrelivence of time. In the music, each of the clocks from the painting are represented with their own theme in the piece. [More detailed information on this piece can be found here] ****[sheet music: Download Score]****
Tremolo Mystique
An electro-acoustic work which examines the 'beat'
effect that occurs on a slightly detuned piano. This 'beat' effect is treated as a tremolo, and the piece develops using this very relationship between the violin and cello tremolos and the piano, tremolo'd using samples. ****[sheet music: Download Score]****
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
This piece is written for either 4 clarinets or 4 saxophones AND tape. It is based on the painting of the same name by Salvador Dali. It is a derivative work based on the 1997 piece "The Persistence of Memory". In the music, as in the painting, the composer represents his view of what the onset of the nuclear age would do to the earlier work. The interpretation is that the disorder of the initial work is now more orderly, as the painting shows blocks of images floating away, and this symbolises a structure of sorts. ****[sheet music: Download Score]****
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