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Echoes from an antique land : for xylophone, vibraphone, two marimbas & bells

by Jennifer Fowler (1983)

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Performance by Nova Ensemble from the CD Mizu to kori

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Work Overview

Echoes from an Antique Land is a development of a piece which began life as a flute solo. I was aiming to achieve a fluidity of rhythm and a feeling of expansion and contraction. Within each phrase the rhythm proceeds in groups of notes which expand and contract. In this concerted piece each instrument has a line which is fluid but has a strong rhythmic impetus and sense of direction; in which the gathering accumulations and dispersions give a feeling of eddies and currents.

Within the piece as a whole, the length of the phrases expand and contract. In a similar way, the phrases begin on a particular note centre, and gradually expand out of it. Sometimes they return to the same note centre, but mostly they expand and"settle" on a different centre. These different centres are part of the larger design of expansion and contraction; and in the places where the feeling of "settling" needs to be particularly emphasised to show the end of the whole section, I have deliberately used some devices of archaic cadential formulae, to achieve extra anchorage.

The title of the piece refers both to these older musical references and to the feeling of age of a landscape eroded into curves and outcrops.

Work Details

Year: 1983

Instrumentation: Xylophone, vibraphone, 2 marimbas, bells.

Duration: 11 min.

Difficulty: Medium

First performance: by London Percussion Ensemble — 15 Jan 85. BBC Studios, London

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Performances of this work

Unknown date: featuring Virginia Commonwealth University Percussion Ensemble.

8 May 13: Queensland Conservatorium. Featuring Ba Da Boom Percussion Ensemble.

28 Jun 08: Colloque de Bassons, Gabriel Faure Music School, Angouleme, France. Featuring Kevin Willois, Ensemble Trielen.

11 May 05: Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane

2 May 05: Festival of Women Composers, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, USA. Featuring Jack Jenny.

10 May 01: WA Academy of Performing Arts, Perth. Featuring Defying Gravity.

20 Oct 00: Perth Concert Hall Foyer. Featuring Defying Gravity.

18 Oct 00: Dept of Music, University of Western Australia, Perth. Featuring Defying Gravity.

3 Jul 94: Composing Women's Festival, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne

24 Apr 93: Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Featuring austraLYSIS, Roger Dean.

17 Apr 91: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

6 Apr 91: Recital Hall, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

6 Aug 90: Basil Kirke Studio, ABC, Perth. Featuring Nova Ensemble.

7 Mar 88: Nottingham University, UK. Featuring Nottingham University Contemporary Ensemble.

3 Mar 88: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK. Featuring Uroboros Ensemble, Gwyn Pritchard.

19 Jul 87: Callaway Auditorium, Dept of Music, University of Western Australia. Featuring Nova Ensemble.

25 Aug 86: St Martins in the Field, London, UK. Featuring Australia Ensemble, Tony Gray.

20 Jul 86: WA Conservatorium, University of Western Australia, Perth. Featuring Nova Ensemble.

6 Oct 85: Recording Hall, Sydney Opera House. Featuring Synergy Percussion.

15 Jan 85: BBC Studios, London. Featuring London Percussion Ensemble.

15 Jan 84: Reinbeck, Germany. Featuring Australia Felix (Ensemble).

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