Name: No Longer At Ease for Euphonium Quartet by Matthew Nunes Brass Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Matthew Nunes Music
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No Longer At Ease for Euphonium Quartet
by Matthew Nunes Low Brass Quartet - Digital Sheet Music

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Title No Longer At Ease for Euphonium Quartet

Artist Matthew Nunes

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Matthew Nunes

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 33

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Matthew Nunes Music

Level 5

Product ID 1355787

Genre Contemporary Chamber 21st Century

Instruments Euphonium

Performance Group Low Brass Quartet

Product Description

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Buyer beware, these are the hardest euphonium parts I've written. Be sure to check out my first euphonium quartet Beacons (2014).

No Longer at Ease is a stand-alone euphonium quartet inspired by Chinua Achebes 1960 novel of the same name. In Achebes novel a young man is sent to University by his villages elders in the hopes he will return able to guide and protect his people through uncertain and unwanted colonialist developments. However, the man abandons their plans to pursue his own interests and faces the fallout of his actions upon his return home and in the volatile years to come. Reading such an affective work in the final semester of my Masters preparing to return home was timely and I have found the similarities between my life and Achebes art blurred. I began writing this work upon returning home to Niceville, Florida and realizing that both myself and the town I call home have changed drastically.

The piece begins with jarring sixteenth-notes derived from a rising arpeggiated-tetrachord. Ceaseless double tonguing, the lead in the fourth euphonium, and unsettling metric shifts combine for unique and frenetic effects. A yearning melody enters amidst this chaos and is a musical spelling of home. The return and developments of the frenetic material culminates in a solo statement of this theme. The middle section represents the home of years past and features a uniquely Niceville quote with fragments of the Niceville High School fight song. These fragments make up each independent line and the music culminates in a triumphant victory. However, this victory is cut brief by the cutting sixteenth-note driven material from earlier. The finale is an exciting mockery of the home theme with interjections and exploitations of all previous themes.

- Matthew Nunes
Niceville, June 2018

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