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1 Piccolo

2 Flute 1

2 Flute 2

1 Oboe

2 Bb Clarinet 1

2 Bb Clarinet 2

2 Bb Clarinet 3

2 Bb Clarinet 4

2 Bb Bass Clarinet

1 Bb Contrabass clarinet

1 bassoon 1

1 Bassoon 2

1 Bb Soprano Saxophone

1 Eb Alto Saxophone 1

1 Eb Alto saxophone 2

1 Bb Tenor saxophone

1 Eb Baritone saxophone

1 Bb Trumpet 1

1 Bb Trumpet 2

1 Bb Trumpet 3

1 Bb Trumpet 4

1 F Horn 1

1 F Horn 2

1 F Horn 3

1 F Horn 4

1 Trombone 1

1 Trombone 2

1 Trombone 3

1 Trombone 4

1 Euphonium B.c.

1 Euphonium T.c.

2 Tuba

1 String Bass

1 Piano

1 Timpani

1 Percussion 1XYLOPHONE, SM. TRIANGLE, SUS. CYMBAL, CRASH CYMBAL, BELL TREE

1 Percussion 2VIBRAPHONE, SM. TRIANGLE, SUS. CYMBAL, CHINA CYMBAL

1 Percussion 3(2) STEEL PLATES, GLOCKENSPIEL, WOOD BLOCK

1 Percussion 4SNARE DRUM, (4) CONCERT TOMS

1 Percussion 5BASS DRUM, TAM-TAM

1 Percussion 6JAZZ DRUM KIT

Copyright © 2011 Michael markowski. all rights reserved.for more information, please visit www.michaelmarkowski.com

as midnight on amoonless night

FOR wind ensemble


//PROGRAM NOTe

To me, “inspiration” is a somewhat overwhelming and all-encompassing term, but it has been kind of funny to look back and reflect on certain ideas that have found their way into my music over the years. Turkey in the Straw (2008) was inspired partly by Mickey Mouse and other cartoons, Instinctive Travels (2009) by a 90’s Tribe Called Quest hip-hop album, Dreamland (2011) by contemporary 70’s lounge jazz/pop artist Gary Wilson, and now I find myself inspired once again by television, borrowing the phrase “as midnight on a moonless night” from the neo-noir who-dunit small town murder mystery, Twin Peaks, created by the eccentric and somewhat off-kilter filmmaker David Lynch.

For my four years as an undergraduate, I critically studied film and television — that is, I watched a lot of movies and cartoons and wrote lots of papers and gave lots of presentations. In retrospect, it makes sense that this background continues to influence my compositions both architecturally and stylistically. I often think of my music as taking on a “Hollywood” narrative structure, not too far from traditional musical forms. I enjoy thinking of melodies in terms of specific characters, thematic development to Second Act character development, and my overall phrasing as being infused with a sense of cause and effect, rising and falling action, and some kind of impending urgency.

As Midnight on a Moonless Night might be best described as music to some dark, Lynchian film with the spirit of adventure and mystery found in John Barry’s James Bond scores or classic 1950’s film noir. The musical landscape is a stark black and white; jazz clichés confused with swung and straight time, chromatic walking bass lines that, perhaps, walk in circles, major chords perched on top of minor chords, double-time fighting with common-time, and even some femme fatale flutes all help to define the world in a somewhat abstract, seductive, and perhaps even a contradictory way. If David Lynch ever choreographed a ballet in a small red room, I hope this would be the music accompanying it.

MICHAEL MARKOWSKIDecember 9, 2011

World Premiere: January 21, 2012; The 2012 South Carolina Intercollegiate Honor Band; Odd Terje Lysebo, conductor

//about the composer

MICHAEL MARKOWSKI (b. 1986, Mesa, Arizona) successfully graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Practices from Arizona State University in 2010. While he has never formally studied music at the university level, he credits a number of remarkable mentors for their inspiration, encouragement, and for helping to keep music in his life. Markowski is a member of ASCAP and currently lives in Tempe, Arizona where it is probably way too hot.

For a more detailed biography, please visit www.michaelmarkowski.com.


as midnight on amoonless night

FOR wind ensemble

COMMISSIONED FOR:The 2012 South Carolina Intercollegiate Honor Band

Odd Terje Lysebo, Conductor

By the South Carolina Chapter of the College Band Director’s National AssociationJames L. Tully, State Chair

Clemson UniversityMark Spede & Tim Hurlburt

Coastal Carolina UniversityJames L. Tully & Matthew Shrewsbury

Furman UniversityLes Hicken & Jay Bocook

Limestone CollegeDoug Presley

University of South CarolinaScott Weiss, Rebecca Phillips, & James Taylor

Winthrop UniversityLorrie Crochet & Catharine Bushman

Charleston Southern UniversityMarshall Forrester & Nicholas Holland


JOSIECAN I OFFER YOU GENTLEMEN A CUP OF JOE?

COOPER

MRS. PACKARD, YOU SAID THE MAGIC WORD. TRUMAN

I’D LOVE A CUP, THANKS. PETE

I’LL GET THAT FOR YOU. MR. COOPER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT? COOPER

BLACK AS MIDNIGHT ON A MOONLESS NIGHT. PETE

PRETTY BLACK.

-TWIN PEAKS, EPISODE 1.02BY MARK FROST AND DAVID LYNCH

ORIGINALLY AIRED APRIL 12, 1990


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