Product Description
Justin
Blands Fanfare and Chorale for four
trumpets, composed in 2014, is a playful piece combining a modern compositional
style with hints of baroque elements. The three-part opening fanfare movement
in B-flat major begins with a majestic figure in trumpets 13 set over a sixteenth
note flourish in trumpet 4. While the more lyrical middle section moves to the
relative minor, hinting at the coming chorale in the final movement, the movement
ends in the same stately character as the opening.
In
the closing chorale movement, the chorale tune, composed by Bland, is divided
between the players in the first section; here, each phrase is stated by an
open trumpet and punctuated with a muted trumpet. The melody is then set in
long notes above lively sixteenth note passages inspired by the opening
fanfare. The work ends with a final harmonized version of the chorale that
interjects sixteenth note figures from earlier in the moment.
While
conceived for four B-flat trumpets, the piece can easily be performed on C
trumpets (as written) if desired, or even on four horns.
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