Faultlines
General Info
Year: 2020
Duration: c. 7:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Matt Klohs
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $116.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
Contra-Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-VI, including:
- Bass Drum
- China Cymbals
- Concert Toms (4)
- Crash Cymbals
- Crotales
- Glockenspiel
- Hi-Hat
- Marimba
- Ratchet
- Snare Drum
- Splash Cymbal
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Tubular Bells
- Vibraphone
- Whip
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Faultlines is a work that is unstable, unpredictable and destructive. New Zealand lies on a series of significant faultlines that have caused catastrophic natural disasters: earthquakes that have reshaped the land, destroyed homes and taken lives, volcanic eruptions that have also significantly altered the land.
Throughout the piece, the ensemble is constantly in tension with itself, rhythmically, melodically and harmonically in ways that transform and grow as the piece goes through a series of unstable moments.
Between these outbursts, there are moments of beauty, even grandeur, in acknowledgement that sometimes beauty can come from places of brokenness -- in the midst of significant change and altering to the land and people, there is new life and hope amongst uncertainty.
At the core of this piece is an allusion to a waiata, a Māori song in response to the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886 near Rotorua, New Zealand.
Tērā te auahi ka patua i Tarawera kai raro iti iho
(Yonder is the plume of smoke that struck at Tarawera)
- Program Note from publisher
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Faultlines (2020)
Resources
- Josiah Carr Music website. Accessed 15 July 2023