Echoes and Memories

Approximate Grade Level - 2 Duration - 4’ Written - 2023

Commissioned by the Van Buren Middle School Band

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Echoes and Memories is designed to be an atmospheric work. It does not have clear melodies but instead uses the idea of echoing to immerse the audience in sound. Musical ideas echo across the band and across sections, as well as throughout the audience in the form of antiphonal cymbals. Suspensions, retardations, and anticipations (musical effects in which notes from past or future chords are borrowed for chords in the present) are also used heavily. My hope is that this blurring of past, present, and future sparks some memories for you, and allows you to explore them in a meditative sonic environment.

Note: There is one section of the piece that is aleatoric. This piece also utilizes antiphonal cymbal parts. These aspects are not performed accurately by the Midi, so some imagination is required.