APOLLONIAN ECHOFor Mixed Octet

PETER JAMES LEARN

APOLLONIAN ECHO

PERFORMANCE NOTES

Trills are to the half-step above, unless otherwise indicated.Glissandi occupy the full duration of initial note, evenly.

PROGRAM NOTE

The title of Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger's 2006 book on Stravinsky, The Apollonian Clockwork, is an allusion to the composer's Neo-Classical period and is a particularly apt turn of phrase.

His Octet for Winds, from the early years of this phase, is indeed a starkly contrasting swing of his artistic pendulum away from the Dionysian Primitivism of his earlier works. Gone were the violent and

impassioned utterrances of the Rite and Firebird, in favor of a more restrained style and reinterpretation of Classical form. This period was also a time when Stravinsky moved away from the dramatic stage in favor

of absolute music, particularly focusing on chamber music. The Octet is certainly exemplary of these shiftings of the composer's artistic landscape, cast as it is in Classical forms and couched in a vocabulary that, while still adventurous and fresh, owes much of its syntax to the tonal realm. While my octet here

certainly borrows a pattern of pitches or motive here and there from Stravinsky's, it is more of an artistic response to the idea of the work. An attempt, as it were, to create an Apollonian clockwork of my own, in

my musical language. The allusions to Stravinsky's Octet are therefore often intentionally obscured, existing more as a personal homage on my part than an attempt at referential quotation, although there are

a few gems that are set prominently into the texture, deployed in a roughly reveresed chronology from their appearance in the original work. I hope that, while certainly not making a conscious attempt to write

in the Neo-Classical idiom, I have nevertheless succeeded to some degree in striving for an Apollonian ideal in this work. And I like to think the master wouldn't mind my reflections of his motives; after all, in

Stravinsky's own words, "A good composer does not imitate, he steals."

Approx. 7 minutes

Flute

Oboe

Horn in F

Violin 1

Violin 2

Viola

Cello

Bass

solosenza vib.

senza vib.

senza vib.

senza vib.

senza vib.

senza vib.

Adagio, time out of time

Adagio, time out of time

solo

solo

gl.

gl.

poco

3

3

poco

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Score is TransposedFor Mixed Octet

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

9

(with Vln.'s primary line)

(primary line)

Solemn, a little faster

Solemn, a little faster

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

17

vib. ord.

(no break)

(subsidiary, support horn and strings)

ord.

ord.

ord.

Allegro

Allegro

A

ord.

ord.

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

26

4 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

33

poco

pizz.

pizz.

B

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

41

loco

arco

arco

6 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

49

(support viola)

Spirited

Spirited

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

55

8 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

59

pull bow away,letting string vibrate

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

63

fltng.

(sim.)

(as possible)

10 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

69

jaunty and soloistic

jaunty and soloistic

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

73

ord.

riten.

riten.

Ominous, ma cantabile

()

Ominous, ma cantabile

()

E

primary line, with flute

senza vib., like a viol

senza vib., like a viol

senza vib., like a viol

senza vib., like a viol

3

primary line, with horn

3

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

79

primary line

(blend)

primary lineord.

senza vib., like a viol

senza vib. (blend)

(blend)

(blend)

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

85

ord.

ord.

ord.

ord.

accel.

accel.

ord.

()

()

14 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

91

F

poco

poco

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

98

poco

3

Molto Pesante

Molto Pesante

accel.

accel.

gl.

gl.

16 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

107

()

()

Rhythmic and playful

Rhythmic and playful

G

pizz.

pizz.

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

113

arco

mart.

mart.

18 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

118

arco

H

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

122

20 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

125

stopped, brassy

ord.

ord.

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

128

6

open

rit.

rit.

22 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

136

()

()

Pensive

Pensive

I

senza vib.

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Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

142

al pont.

sul pont

(as possible)

ord.

al pont. s.p

poco accel., very subtly pushing tempo

poco accel., very subtly pushing tempo

ord.

24 APOLLONIAN ECHO

Fl.

Ob.

Hn.

Vln. 1

Vln. 2

Vla.

Vlc.

Cb.

147

(not s.p.)

()

()

rit. al fine

rit. al fine

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