Texas
Texas is a piece based on a piece called Workers Union by Bang On Can. The idea of the piece is a group of musicians is given the same score in relative pitch and everybody plays in unison but in different positions up and down the note spectrum. The result sounds something like a crowd chanting and yelling
The piece is split into 10 passages. The conductor indicates to the group what passage to play and when by holding up that amount of fingers. The conductor may also single out spacific musicians to play a different passage, almost as if they were getting into an argument together. The name for this piece was inspired by Texas' political system- A crazy place where anything goes and where everyone is always angry. |
The score for Texas
|