Name: NEW HORIZONS by John Michael Pekowski Concert Band Digital Sheet Music
Brand: John Michael Pekowski
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NEW HORIZONS
by John Michael Pekowski Concert Band - Digital Sheet Music

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Title NEW HORIZONS

Artist John Michael Pekowski

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer John Michael Pekowski

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 88

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher John Michael Pekowski

Level 4

Product ID 1419492

Genre Classical Thriller 21st Century

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

In July of 2015, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft skimmed past Pluto revealing a dynamic landscape. Important new data was collected, helping to piece together the history of a world with a patchwork geology featuring towering mountains, flowing glaciers, and plains of ice. I was inspired by the spirit of exploration.

With this is mind, I arranged semi-symmetrical sets with varying densities into pitch topologies constrained by numerical relationships. These are juxtaposed next to each other, helping to suggest the patchwork geology of Pluto. As I was composing, I gave preference to fluidic voice-leading and dramatic exposition. I also had to end with a satisfying resolution because NASAs mission has been such a success. In fact, New Horizons continues to explore objects in the outer solar system.

Conductor's note: The (optional) last twelve bars are bit of an unintentional homage to sci-fi, but have their roots in the triplet pattern established in the introduction. In this piece I was using a narrower set list, and interestingly these types of hommages are more common within the simpler numerical permutations of smaller quantites.

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